BY J. NEWMAN

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A GEORGE IV MAHOGANY AND EBONY BAROMETER
By J. Newman
The bowed rectangular body with a glazed and engraved thermometer, above a rectangular base with canted and simulated-fluted angles and centred by a later ebonised urn, the rectangular bowed top with a glazed and engraved barometer, inscribed 'J. Newman, 122 Regent Street/LONDON,' surmounted by a broken-scroll pediment and centred by a later turned brass acorn finial, with paper label to the reverse inscribed in ink '5517', lacking the 2 1/8 in. (5.5 cm.) wooden top to the thermometer glazing, restorations, the veneer to the base behind the urn later
40 in. (101.5 cm.) high

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John Frederick Newman (fl. 1816-1860) was one of the leading barometer makers of the 19th Century whose meterorological station barometers were installed throughout the British Empire. Operating from 122 Regent Street between 1827 and 1860, he made the standard and portable barometers for the Ross Antarctic expedition (N. Goodison, English Barometers 1680-1860, Woodbridge, rev.ed., 1977, p. 344).

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