Sale 7103
London
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7 December 2005
Price realised
GBP 840
Estimate
A Regency mahogany stick barometer J. Tarchone, Manchester. Circa 1820 The silvered engraved register scale signed J* Tarchone Port Street, Manchester No. 70 with adjustable Vernier and alcohol thermometer all behind a glazed door beneath a broken pediment centred by a bone urn finial, the cross-banded trunk terminated by a turned mahogany cistern cover 39½in. (100.5cm.) high
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