A Victorian silver cased aneroid pocket barometer J.H. Steward, London, 1865 With 1.75 inch circular silvered register signed J.H. Steward, 406 strand & 54 Cornhill, LONDON centre within concentric scale calibrated for barometric inches divided into twentieths and annotated with the usual weather observations, the pocket watch type case incorporating rotating bezel with recording marker to the inside surface of the front glass and suspension ring, marks for London 1865, diameter 5cm (2ins). 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. Paul's 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'.
A Victorian silver cased aneroid pocket barometer J.H. Steward, London, 1865 With 1.75 inch circular silvered register signed J.H. Steward, 406 strand & 54 Cornhill, LONDON centre within concentric scale calibrated for barometric inches divided into twentieths and annotated with the usual weather observations, the pocket watch type case incorporating rotating bezel with recording marker to the inside surface of the front glass and suspension ring, marks for London 1865, diameter 5cm (2ins). 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. Paul's 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'.
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