A Victorian carved oak mercury stick barometer, J.H Steward, London, third quarter 19th century, with foliate scroll carved arched upstand and moulded cornice incorporating corbeled projections to the sides over rectangular bevel-glazed double opaque glass Vernier scales calibrated in barometric inches and with the usual observations, the lower margins annotated 10 A.M YESTERDAY and 10 A.M TO DAY, and signed J.H. STEWARD, ...Strand, London to upper left hand corner, the trunk with triangular rosettes, cavetto side mouldings and Vernier setting squares to throat above applied glazed mercury tube Fahrenheit and Centigrade scale thermometer decorated with fan carved crest to upper rail, the base of shaped cartouche outline applied with shield-centred scroll carved shaped cistern cover with level adjustment square to underside, 109cm high James Henry Steward is recorded in Banfield, Edwin BAROMETER MAKERS AND RETAILERS 1660-1900 as a maker of all types of barometers who worked from several addresses in London including; 406 Strand (1857-1900 and beyond), 67 Strand (1867-8), 63 St. Pauls Churchyard (1867-80), Cornhill (1867-92), 66 Strand (1869-88), 456 Strand (1879-88), 474 West Strand (1886-1900 and beyond) and 7 Gracechurch Street (1893-1900 and beyond). He advertised as maker of the celebrated Lord Bury telescope and maker of the Fitzroy barometers, as in use at all railway termini and principal hotels in London. The current lot is provided with two scales to allow change in barometric pressure to be recorded as designed by Admiral Fitzroy for his 'storm barmeters' which he devised in around 1857.