LOT 30 A George III mahogany mercury stick barometer, unsigned, Late 18th century
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A George III mahogany mercury stick barometer Unsigned, Late 18th century With brass finials to the pagoda superstructure over glazed paper scales calibrated in barometric inches and annotated for both winter and summer within borders decorated with trumpeting figures and rococo scrollwork, flanked by free-standing Doric columns over moulded trunk and square hinged box cistern cover to base, (tube lacking), 94cm (37ins) high; with an early Victorian mahogany wheel barometer, with eight-inch silvered register beneath ebonised mirror, mercury tube Fahrenheit thermometer and hygrometer to the swan neck pediment, the rounded base with spirit level inscribed Luppi & Solcha, Hull, 97cm (38ins) high, (2). Luppie and Solcha are recorded in Banfield, Edwin Barometer Makers and Retailers 1660-1900 as working from 17 Robinson Row, Hull circa 1835-50.
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