LOT DETAILS

Materials:

The case with broken-arch pediment and brass urn finial, portable cistern with brass screw, fahrenheit mercury thermometer mounted on plate with engraved border, gut hygrometer with steel hand in arch, Mahogany, ivory and brass

Size Notes:

39 3?4 in. (101 cm.) high; 6 in. (15.2 cm.) wide; 3 1?2 in. (8.9 cm.) deep

Description:

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Literature:

N. Goodison, English Barometers, London, 1968, pp. 165-7, pls. 98-100. N. Goodison, English Barometers, Woodbridge, 1977, pp. 179-185, pls. 122-3. E. Banfield, Barometers, Wheel or Banjo, Trowbridge, 1985, pp. 59-61, figs. 64-65.

Provenance:

with Moss Harris, New Oxford Street, London. Acquired from R.A. Lee, London, June 1965.