.jpg?w=1)
An attractive late 19th-Century French timepiece/barometer set
Details
An attractive late 19th-Century French timepiece/barometer set
surmounted by a 4½-inch diameter terrestrial globe by E. BERTAUX EDITEUR Rue Serpente 25 PARIS made up of twelve colour printed gores and two polar calottes, with graduated equatorial, ecliptic and Meridian of Paris, the oceans showing currents, the continents coloured in outline in yellow, green and pink and showing cities, rivers and national boundaries in dotted outline, with a steel ball and point finial, unengraved brass horizon on four curved quadrant supports over the brass cased timepiece with brushed steel face, pierced blued-steel needles and Arabic numerals, a crank jack and anchor on either side, the latter stamped 1810, to the left a small glazed compass with blued-steel needle in a brass mounting representing a ship's instrument with four horizontal turned handles, to the right a glazed barometer with blued-steel needle, partially visible aneroid, paper dial with text in French and with a mounting to resemble a gear wheel, all mounted on a white marble base on a stepped brass plinth with square feet
15in. (38.1cm.) high
surmounted by a 4½-inch diameter terrestrial globe by E. BERTAUX EDITEUR Rue Serpente 25 PARIS made up of twelve colour printed gores and two polar calottes, with graduated equatorial, ecliptic and Meridian of Paris, the oceans showing currents, the continents coloured in outline in yellow, green and pink and showing cities, rivers and national boundaries in dotted outline, with a steel ball and point finial, unengraved brass horizon on four curved quadrant supports over the brass cased timepiece with brushed steel face, pierced blued-steel needles and Arabic numerals, a crank jack and anchor on either side, the latter stamped 1810, to the left a small glazed compass with blued-steel needle in a brass mounting representing a ship's instrument with four horizontal turned handles, to the right a glazed barometer with blued-steel needle, partially visible aneroid, paper dial with text in French and with a mounting to resemble a gear wheel, all mounted on a white marble base on a stepped brass plinth with square feet
15in. (38.1cm.) high