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An Edwardian 15ct gold cased aneroid pocket barometer with altimeter scale Ross, London, 1907 The 1.75 inch circular silvered register signed ROSS, LONDON, 892 and inscribed within concentric scale calibrated for barometric inches divided into twentieths and annotated with basic weather observations within rotating outer scale calibrated in feet from 0 to 8,000 and divided for 100 foot intervals, the pocket watch type case with suspension ring, machined bezel and engraved inscription ROB’T EMMET. MORETON MORRELL, WARWICK, ENG. to circumference, marks for Chester 1907, diameter 5cm (2ins). Provenance: Private collection, Hampshire (ref. B57). Andrew Ross is recorded in Clifton, Gloria Directory of British Scientific Instrument Makers 1550-1851 as working from various addresses in London 1830-59: 5 Albemarle St., St. John’s Square, Clerkenwell (1831-2); 15 St. John’s Square, Clerkenwell (1832-9); 33 Regent Circus, Piccadilly (1839-43); 21 Featherstone Buildings, Clerkenwell (1843-7); 2 Featherstone Buildings Clerkenwell (1848-53) and 2-3 Featherstone Buildings, Holborn (1854-59). Ross was a founder member of the Microscopical Society of London; he died in 1859 and was succeeded by Thomas Ross The firm continued as one of the principal manufacturers of optical and other instruments through various successors until 1982. The inscription relates to Robert Emmet who was a wealthy American-born banker of Irish heritage born in New York in 1872. By 1901 he was living with his wife Louise and three infant sons in Barford, Warwickshire before building a substantial and authentic recreation of an Elizabethan manor house called Moreton Paddox at Moreton Morrell, Warwickshire. A fascinating account of him and his family can be found online at ‘The Great War in Villages Project’. Condition report disclaimer