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A Victorian mahogany stick barometer
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A Victorian mahogany stick barometer

JOHN FREDERICK NEWMAN, LONDON. CIRCA 1840

細節
A Victorian mahogany stick barometer
John Frederick Newman, London. Circa 1840
The case with ebonised swan-neck cresting capped with bone roundels and with brass urn finial, thumb-nail moulded edge to the trunk and moulded circular cistern cover, brass-capped concealed tube, with glass panel to silvered plates signed J. Newman 122 Regent St./LONDON, with sliding Vernier scale
40 in. (102 cm.) high
來源
The Alan S. Marx Collection, Important Watches, Wristwatches and Clocks, Sotheby's New York, 24 & 25 June 1996, lot 473.
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VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium.

拍品專文

Regarded as the leading scientific instrument maker of his day, John Frederick Newman is recorded as working between 1816-1862. He made standard and portable barometers for James Clark Ross's Antarctic expeditions (1839-1843) and his metereological station barometers were used throughout the British Empire. He was also the inventor of the Newman mountain barometer. In 1851 he was an exhibitor at the Great Exhibition at the Crystal Palace. Newman occupied two London premises: 7 & 8 Lisle Street (1816-1825) and 122 Regent Street (1827-1862). His business was taken over by Negretti & Zambra in 1862.