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JAMES JOSEPH HICKS, LONDON. CIRCA 1875
Details
A Victorian oak stick barometer
James Joseph Hicks, London. Circa 1875
The case with leaf-carved pediment and with conforming 'ears' flanking a trunk applied with foliate mouldings, with leaf and scroll carved cistern cover, concealed wide bore tube, with glass panel to two-day angled ceramic plates signed J. HICKS/8/Hatton Garden/London, with twin sliding vernier scales, the trunk applied with a glazed Fahrenheit and Centigrade mercury thermometer
111 cm. high
James Joseph Hicks, London. Circa 1875
The case with leaf-carved pediment and with conforming 'ears' flanking a trunk applied with foliate mouldings, with leaf and scroll carved cistern cover, concealed wide bore tube, with glass panel to two-day angled ceramic plates signed J. HICKS/8/Hatton Garden/London, with twin sliding vernier scales, the trunk applied with a glazed Fahrenheit and Centigrade mercury thermometer
111 cm. high
Provenance
Sotheby's London, Good Clocks and Barometers, 3 October 1996, lot 277.
Special notice
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