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A Regency mahogany stick barometer, circa 1820
With breakarch pediment, thumb-nail edge mouldings to the trunk and turned cistern cover, hinged door to the silvered register plate with sliding vernier scale and alcohol thermometer, signed Maggi & Ortelli/EXETER/Warranted, visible mercury tube and bulb cistern -- 39¼in. (99cm.) high
With breakarch pediment, thumb-nail edge mouldings to the trunk and turned cistern cover, hinged door to the silvered register plate with sliding vernier scale and alcohol thermometer, signed Maggi & Ortelli/EXETER/Warranted, visible mercury tube and bulb cistern -- 39¼in. (99cm.) high
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