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Details
A Victorian Scottish rosewood marine stick barometer with sympiesometer by Kelvin & James White Ltd., Glasgow, Circa 1860
The case with cushion-moulded stepped top, with glazed sympiesometer to the trunk, brass cistern cover and gimbal wall mount, concealed tube, with glass panel to two-day angled bone plates signed KELVIN & JAMES WHITE LTD. GLASGOW, with twin sliding vernier scales -- 36 1/3in. (93cm.) high
The case with cushion-moulded stepped top, with glazed sympiesometer to the trunk, brass cistern cover and gimbal wall mount, concealed tube, with glass panel to two-day angled bone plates signed KELVIN & JAMES WHITE LTD. GLASGOW, with twin sliding vernier scales -- 36 1/3in. (93cm.) high
Provenance
The Alan S. Marx Collection, Important Watches, Wristwatches and Clocks, Sotheby's New York, 24 & 25 June 1996, 455
Special notice
VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium.