Lot Essay
The portability of the non-mercurial aneroid barometer made it an ideal accessory for the traveller. Travel sets comprising barometer, compass and thermometer became popular around 1870 (see Edwin Banfield Barometers: Aneroid and Barographs, Baros Books 1985, p.62). It was not long before carriage clock makers added a clock and included the several instruments in one case, thereby creating an ideal instrument for the tourist: which shows the time, barometric pressure, temperature and also the direction of north.