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WATKINS, LONDON. EARLY 19TH CENTURY
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An English mahogany, ebony inlaid and ebonised bow-front stick barometer
Watkins, London. Early 19th Century
With ebony banding to the trunk, flanking a mercury thermometer under bowed glass, the cistern within spiral-twist cage, signed on its silvered scale Watkins/Charing Cross/London, the register plate also silvered and under bowed glass, with sliding Vernier scale and signed Watkins Charing Cross, with ebonised urn-shaped cover to boxwood cistern
97 cm. high
Watkins, London. Early 19th Century
With ebony banding to the trunk, flanking a mercury thermometer under bowed glass, the cistern within spiral-twist cage, signed on its silvered scale Watkins/Charing Cross/London, the register plate also silvered and under bowed glass, with sliding Vernier scale and signed Watkins Charing Cross, with ebonised urn-shaped cover to boxwood cistern
97 cm. high
Special notice
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