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A Black Forest style carved wood inkwell, decorated an owl and owlets, 14 cm high, and a similar desktop barometer (2) Condition report Report by GH The owl and owlets have possibly been varnished. One of the owlets is missing an eye. The tail of the owl and some of the foliage have received damage, and the base is slightly split down the grains of the wood in three or four places. The barometer is generally in good condition, but the bear on the top is slightly loose, and there are a few small chips and dents, particularly to the foliage.
Salom & Co, Edinburgh & London: a flat-top mahogany stick barometer with a turned cistern cover to the base, the two bone dials set aslant behind a glazed cover with double vernier gauge, one side showing the state from one direction, the other dial showing the state from the opposite direction, signed Salom & Co, Edinburgh & London, and having various inscriptions engraved including Add one tenth for each degree above sea level, with a thermometer set to the front of the trunk, height 95cm.
Whitehurst, Derby, a mahogany stick barometer: the tapering column flat-top trunk surmounted by a rectangular silvered dial engraved with usual barometer gauge and the maker's name Whitehurst, with a glazed opening door, the trunk base with a moulded cistern, height 96cm. * Biography There were three generations of Whitehursts making both fine clocks and barometers, with this example the work of John Whitehurst II, (born 1761 died 1834), who was the nephew of the renowned John Whitehurst senior, taking on the Cheshire business at 22, Irongate, Derby when the latter moved to London. In circa 1810 he took on his son into a partnership renamed Whitehurst & Son and which remained as such until the father's death. Whitehurst II was known to favour barometer's with a dark mahogany tapering column and used this style in a number of different forms. A number of barometers signed by differing members of the Whitehurst family are known in various museums including the British Museum and the Museum of the History of Science in Oxford.
P. Gally, London, a mahogany stick barometer: the silvered dial having curved lower corners and engraved with a typical barometer scale, with a barometer set to the side and signed & numbered P. Gally, High Holborn, London, 132, with an opening glazed door, the mahogany case having a visible tube, a pediment top with cast brass finial, turned cistern to the base and inlaid chevron decoration to the edge, height 96cm. * Biography Both Paul and peter Gally are recorded as working in London at various addresses from circa 1809 until circa 1854.

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