A SNAKEWOOD MERCURY STICK BAROMETER AND OAK DEMONTRATION WHEEL BAROMETERTHE STICK BAROMETER BY D.C. HARBEN, KESTON, DATED 1948The stick barometer with twin lacquered brass scales signed D.C. HARBEN, KESTON 1948 to upper margin and inscribed 10 AM YESTERDAY and 10 AM TODAY to lower applied to a shallow-arch top snakewood panel with chamfered edges along with visible tube terminating with a crack-finish demi-spherical cistern cover to the conforming base, the wheel barometer with open-centre to the 8 inch circular silvered register calibrated in barometric inches and with the ual observations to the circumference set with convex-glazed cast brass bezel, the case with glazed-front upper and lower sections so that the operation of the instrument can be seen, (2).The stick barometer 87cm (34.25ins) high, 10cm (4ins) wide, the wheel barometer 93.5cm (36.75ins) high.Provenance: The archive and exhibition collections of Barometer World Meum, Merton, Devon.