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A large Regency banjo barometer
with satinwood and ebony stringing, the swan-neck pediment centred by a gilt-bronze pineapple finial, with silvered dials, hygrometer above alcohol thermometer, centred by a convex mirror within reeded ebonised slip, the main register engraved with a map of the world to the centre, the spirit level below signed Benham Collumpton -- 43¼in.(110cm.) high
See Colour Illustration (Plate 9)
with satinwood and ebony stringing, the swan-neck pediment centred by a gilt-bronze pineapple finial, with silvered dials, hygrometer above alcohol thermometer, centred by a convex mirror within reeded ebonised slip, the main register engraved with a map of the world to the centre, the spirit level below signed Benham Collumpton -- 43¼in.(110cm.) high
See Colour Illustration (Plate 9)