Lot Essay
Although unsigned, it is probable that this barometer originated in Scotland: see Edwin Banfield BAROMETERS Stick or Cistern Tube, Baros, 1985, fig.137 for a similar example illustrated.
Details
A Regency satinwood stick barometer
with triangular top, crossbanded and line inlaid, with silvered Vernier scale to the top and alcohol thermometer to the trunk below, with hinged door to the cistern -- 39½in.(100cm.) high
See Colour Illustration (Plate 13)
with triangular top, crossbanded and line inlaid, with silvered Vernier scale to the top and alcohol thermometer to the trunk below, with hinged door to the cistern -- 39½in.(100cm.) high
See Colour Illustration (Plate 13)
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