AN UNUAL VICTORIAN CARVED OAK MERCURY WHEEL BAROMETERSINGER, FROME, THIRD QUARTER OF THE 19th CENTURYThe 8 inch circular silvered register engraved with starburst and signed SINGER, FROME to the centre within scale calibrated in barometric inches and with the ual weather observations to outer track, set behind convex glazed brass bezel, the case carved with entwined branches with leaves and acorns around a panel applied Fahrenheit scale mercury tube glazed thermometer incorporating leafy crests to top and bottom to the upright with the branches continuing around the dial and with further left motif to the base incorporating recording hand adjtment square, (unrestored, lacking hands).101.5cm (40ins) high; 33cm (13ins) wide.Provenance: The archive collection of Barometer World Meum, Merton, Devon.Singer of Frome does not appear to be recorded in the ual sources however online sources note them as art metalworkers and founders of bronze (cire perdue) working from 'Frome Art Works' from circa 1848; It would appear that they mainly undertookmissions for ecclesiastical works.