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A Regency mahogany stick barometer, circa 1820
The case with broken arch pediment and brass acorn finial, with thumb-nail mouldings to the trunk and turned hemispherical cistern cover, brass-capped exposed tube, with glazed door to silvered plate signed W. Hawkes Grice/Successor to Fraser/Bond Street London, with mercury thermometer and sliding Vernier scale -- 39¼ in. (100 cm.) high
The case with broken arch pediment and brass acorn finial, with thumb-nail mouldings to the trunk and turned hemispherical cistern cover, brass-capped exposed tube, with glazed door to silvered plate signed W. Hawkes Grice/Successor to Fraser/Bond Street London, with mercury thermometer and sliding Vernier scale -- 39¼ in. (100 cm.) high
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