Lot Essay
An unsigned stick barometer (c.1720) of closely related design is illustrated Edwin Banfield Barometers Stick or Cistern Tube, Baros Books, 1985, p.32, figs.31-32.
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UNSIGNED. 18TH CENTURY AND LATER
Details
A George I walnut stick barometer
Unsigned. 18th Century and later
The case with later giltwood ball finials to a stepped caddy top, breakarch cornice supported by turned and tapering columns, flanking a silvered and engraved dial with brass index arm, the trunk with concave mouldings to the sides, with later paper thermometer scale, alcohol thermometer, with moulded cistern cover below; restorations
42¾ in. (109 cm.) high
Unsigned. 18th Century and later
The case with later giltwood ball finials to a stepped caddy top, breakarch cornice supported by turned and tapering columns, flanking a silvered and engraved dial with brass index arm, the trunk with concave mouldings to the sides, with later paper thermometer scale, alcohol thermometer, with moulded cistern cover below; restorations
42¾ in. (109 cm.) high