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Lot Essay
A barometer of closely related design is illustrated in Edwin Banfield, Barometers, Stick or Cistern Tube, Baros Books, 1985, p.27, fig.26.
Details
A Queen Anne walnut stick barometer
The case with moulded lunette pediment above a scroll-sided cresting, the trunk with moulded sides and terminating in a turned cistern cover, with engraved brass register plates (probably later), later mercury tube, first quarter 18th century and with restorations -- 44½in. (113cm.) high
The case with moulded lunette pediment above a scroll-sided cresting, the trunk with moulded sides and terminating in a turned cistern cover, with engraved brass register plates (probably later), later mercury tube, first quarter 18th century and with restorations -- 44½in. (113cm.) high
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