Ω A Victorian carved walnut mercury stick barometer Gargory, Birmingham, third quarter of the 19th century With scallop shell and scroll carved pediment and cavetto cornice above rectangular bevel-glazed double ivory double Vernier scales calibrated in barometric inches and with the usual observations, the upper margins annotated 10 A.M YESTERDAY and 10 A.M TO DAY, beneath signature GREGORY, 41 BULL STREET, BIRMINGHAM, the trunk with Vernier setting squares to throat above applied glazed mercury tube Fahrenheit and Centigrade scale thermometer decorated with carved motifs to upper and lower rails, the base of circular outline applied with rosette carved cistern cover with level adjustment square to underside, (tube removed but present), 98cm (38.5ins) high. Provenance: Private collection Hampshire (ref. B155); Purchased at Christies, London, 17th June 2008 (lot 5) for £750 hammer. James Gargory is recorded in Banfield, Edwin BAROMETER MAKERS AND RETAILERS 1660-1900 as working from various addresses in Bull St. Birmingham 1830-56. Cites Regulations Please note that this lot (lots marked with the symbol Ω in the printed catalogue) may be subject to CITES regulations when exported from the EU. The CITES regulations may be found at www.defra.gov.uk/ahvla-en/imports-exports/cites
Ω A Victorian carved walnut mercury stick barometer Gargory, Birmingham, third quarter of the 19th century With scallop shell and scroll carved pediment and cavetto cornice above rectangular bevel-glazed double ivory double Vernier scales calibrated in barometric inches and with the usual observations, the upper margins annotated 10 A.M YESTERDAY and 10 A.M TO DAY, beneath signature GREGORY, 41 BULL STREET, BIRMINGHAM, the trunk with Vernier setting squares to throat above applied glazed mercury tube Fahrenheit and Centigrade scale thermometer decorated with carved motifs to upper and lower rails, the base of circular outline applied with rosette carved cistern cover with level adjustment square to underside, (tube removed but present), 98cm (38.5ins) high. Provenance: Private collection Hampshire (ref. B155); Purchased at Christies, London, 17th June 2008 (lot 5) for £750 hammer. James Gargory is recorded in Banfield, Edwin BAROMETER MAKERS AND RETAILERS 1660-1900 as working from various addresses in Bull St. Birmingham 1830-56. Cites Regulations Please note that this lot (lots marked with the symbol Ω in the printed catalogue) may be subject to CITES regulations when exported from the EU. The CITES regulations may be found at www.defra.gov.uk/ahvla-en/imports-exports/cites
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