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A Russian mahogany bow-front stick barometer, circa 1850
The ebony-banded case with part-ebonised stepped and moulded pediment and rectangular cistern cover with canted angles, with bowed glass to silvered plates with Cyrillic inscriptions and signature Rospini St. Petersburg, brass tube cap, Vernier scale, the trunk with bow-front glass to mercury thermometer with repeat signature -- 38½ in. (98 cm.) high
The ebony-banded case with part-ebonised stepped and moulded pediment and rectangular cistern cover with canted angles, with bowed glass to silvered plates with Cyrillic inscriptions and signature Rospini St. Petersburg, brass tube cap, Vernier scale, the trunk with bow-front glass to mercury thermometer with repeat signature -- 38½ in. (98 cm.) high
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