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A William IV rosewood stick barometer, circa 1835
The case with carved scroll and anthemion cresting, thumb-nail mouldings to the trunk and ribbed urn-shaped cistern cover, wide bore tube (lacking), with glass to two-day angled silvered plates signed PETER CLARE Manchester, with twin sliding vernier scales, the trunk with glazed alcohol Fahrenheit thermometer and with handwritten comparative chart and bone sliding scale -- 39in. (99cm.) high
The case with carved scroll and anthemion cresting, thumb-nail mouldings to the trunk and ribbed urn-shaped cistern cover, wide bore tube (lacking), with glass to two-day angled silvered plates signed PETER CLARE Manchester, with twin sliding vernier scales, the trunk with glazed alcohol Fahrenheit thermometer and with handwritten comparative chart and bone sliding scale -- 39in. (99cm.) high
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