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Donegan, Holborn a Georgian stick barometer: the silvered dial with usual barometer markings, sliding vernier gauge, inset thermometer and engraved for the maker P. Donegan & Co., No.7 Union Court, Holborn, London, with a glazed door, the mahogany case with visible tube, turned cistern cover, and an architectural pediment, height 100cm.
Three trays of miscellaneous items; quartz travel clocks, Sestrel porthole style alarm clock, small wall barometer with wooden frame etc, art pottery jugs and goblets, hardstone cylindrical vase and small jar with lid, stoneware vase by Newport pottery, duck design egg crock, chamber stick, glass animal figures; avondale coloured glass whale, Wedgwood clear glass whale, duck, elephant, bear and a similar squirrel, a Mdina seahorse with coloured base etc. (3)(B.P. 21% + VAT)
A bowfront mahogany stick barometer by 'Lione & Somalvico, 14 Brook Street, Holborn', early 19th century, the swanneck pediment with urn finial above signed silvered register with vernier and white adjusting knob, urn shape cistern cover below 104cm highWith ivory exemption certificate.probabl with previous restoriation and repolishing/cleaning. See photos.
A Mahogany Stick Barometer, signed J.Smith, Royal Exchange, London, circa 1820, swan neck pediment, concealed mercury tube with a single vernier silvered dial signed, thermometer box, turned cistern cover, 99.5cm high Cistern cover with small scratches and a minor chip to the outer border of the cistern cover, mercury tube is complete and with mercury visible in the tube.
A GEORGE III MAHOGANY MERCURY STICK BAROMETERNEALE AND BAILEY, LONDON, CIRCA 1810With open triangular pediment over silvered Vernier scale calibrated in barometric inches and with the usual observations beneath engraved signature Neale & Bailey, St Pauls Church yard to the right-hand side opposing Fahrenheit scale mercury thermometer to the left, set behind hinged glazed door over caddy moulded trunk with visible tube flanked by angled banded veneers above rounded base fitted with ring-turned domed cistern cover incorporating level adjustment screw to underside.96cm (37.75ins) high excluding brass finial, 13.5cm (5.25ins) wide. Neale and Bailey are recorded in Banfield, Edwin BAROMETER MAKERS & RETAILERS 1660-1900 as working from St. Pauls Church Yard, London, circa 1810-30.Condition Report: Tube is filled with no apparent air locks. The level adjustment screw is a replacement. The silvered scale is in fine condition with minimal discolouration/mellowing to the finish. The thermometer is in good condition. The case is very presentable and of nice colour however the cistern cover is a replacement. The pediment may also be well-made replacement. Condition Report Disclaimer
A GEORGE III MAHOGANY MERCURY STICK BAROMETERDOLLOND, LONDON, CIRCA 1775With open triangular pediment above rectangular brass vernier scale calibrated in barometric inches, with the usual observations and signed Dollond, LONDON near the upper margin, the flame-veneered caddy-moulded trunk inset with visible tube over replaced hemispherical cistern cover to the rounded base incorporating brass level adjustment screw to underside.98cm (38.5ins) high excluding finial, 13.5cm (5.25ins) wide. Peter Dollond is recorded in Banfield, Edwin BAROMETER MAKERS AND RETAILERS 1680-1860 as born 1730 and died 1820. He was the son of John Dollond, a Huguenot silk weaver and started business as an optician in 1750. He was joined by his father in 1752 until his death in 1761, and then by his brother, John, until his death in 1804. The family business was continued by Peter Dollond's nephew, George Huggins, who changed his name to Dollond. George Dollond became instrument maker to William IV and Queen Victoria, exhibited at the Great Exhibition in 1851 and died 1856.
J J WILSON, SUNDERLAND. AN EARLY VICTORIAN ROSEWOOD MARINE STICK BAROMETER/IMPROVED SYMPIESOMETER the calibrated angled barometer dial with double sliding vernier above a calibrated silvered sympiesometer to the stem; with a panelled enclosed cistern cover to the base.96cm high The case has its origianl colour and polish, the bone dial is discoloured, the glass mercury tube has broken, the silvering to the sympiesometer has discoloured and there is an air bubble to the tube. Missing gimble and vernier adjusting knobs.
GARDNER & CO. GLASGOW. AN EARLY 19TH CENTURY FIGURED MAHOGANY BOW FRONT STICK BAROMETER the leaf carved pediment and glazed silvered engraved calibrated dial with rack and pinion vernier above a slender column enclosing a mercury filled glass tube, silvered calibrated thermometer and leaf carved cistern cover100cm high
JAMES LONG, ROYAL EXCHANGE, LONDON. A GEORGE III MAHOGANY STICK BAROMETER/THERMOMETER with hinged rounded door to the top revealing a calibrated silvered engraved dial signed to the top and with sliding vernier above a hinged glazed door enclosing a full length silvered thermometer; with turned cistern cover93cm overall
Manticha (Dominick ?), a George III mahogany case stick barometer with architectural pediment above a glazed register plate bearing the legend: "Manticha Fecit" the trunk with parquet line inlay and visible tube with turned dome reservoir cover below. 13 cm overall width x 98 cm highDominick Manticha is recorded at 11 Ely Court, Holborn in 1805, he was one of a group of Italian craftsmen working in London in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. For further discussion of Manticha's work, see N. Goodison, English Barometers 1680-1860 (Woodbridge, 1977), p. 176-178.Two short length of moulding missing from the returns of the pediment.
A 19th century chequer strung stick barometer, the silvered dial signed Dollond, London, with an exposed tube and convex cistern cover below, 96cm highOverall condition looks to be complete. It has signs of age, but looks to have been restored in recent years, so is in clean condition. Collected from a house clearance in Suffolk.

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