Lot 765
  • 765

A mahogany and polychrome-painted pillar barometer circa 1860

Estimate
1,000 - 1,500 USD
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Description

  • WALNUT, PAINTED BEECHWOOD, GLASS, MARBLE
  • height 35 in.
  • 89 cm
with a removable glass dome and lacking microscope

Catalogue Note

A seemingly identical example is illustrated Edwin Banfield, Barometers: Stick or Cistern Tube, England, 1985, pg. 191.