A rare Queen Anne walnut cistern tube stick barometer with Royal Society scale thermometer. In the manner of John Patrick, London, Unsigned, circa 1710 and later. The ogee caddy top pediment with three turned brass finials above cavetto moulded break-arch cornice and arched herringbone border and foliate scroll engraved silvered scales with brass setting pointer and annotated for summer and winter conditions and inscribed Fair if Rise and Foul if Fall, flanked by pilasters with brass capitals and bases above cavetto moulded throat moulding, the trunk applied with alcohol thermometer with (replaced) silvered scale calibrated from 5 at the top down to 95 and with annotations from Extream Cold to Extream Hott flanked by vertical cross-grain cavetto mouldings to sides and with half dome above waisted cylinder turned cistern cover also enclosing thermometer bulb and with gilt brass pendant finial to base (some restoration, thermometer scale replaced), 105cm high. A closely related example is illustrated and described in Claxton Stevens, Christopher and Wittington, Stewart 18th CENTURY ENGLISH FURNITURE, THE NORMAN ADAMS COLLECTION, page 463. The Royal Society scale thermometer was devised by Robert Hooke in 1664 and was calibrated to every degree representing an increase of 1/500 in volume of the thermometer liquid. The scale used the freezing point of water as the fixed point and was scaled from high to low with the increase of temperature. As the rate of expansion of the alcohol varied between instruments, each scale had to be individually made . For the instrument. The current Lot has a replacement silvered scale as the original paper scale had probably become to worn and discoloured to read. Hooke’s original thermometer was adopted and became known as the standard of Gresham College and used by the Royal Society until 1709.
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A William and Mary style olivewood cistern tube stick barometer in the manner of John Patrick. Unsigned, circa 1695 and later. The superstructure with arched pediment, brass ball finials and swollen frieze above fretwork upright flanked by ebonised twist turned columns, the later silvered herringbone border and foliate engraved two-part break-arch scale with brass setting pointer above replaced exposed bulb-cistern tube flanked by cross-grain veneers and ebonised caddy moulded edge above fretwork flared side panels and later half-round ring-turned cistern cover with ogee moulded underside, (restorations and replacements) 120cm high. The decorative ‘hood’ superstructure which incorporates spiral twist columns emulates the design of longcase clock from the end of the 17th century and bears similarities to examples depicted in John Patrick’s advertisement of circa 1710 reproduced in Goodison, Nicholas English BAROMETERS 1680-1860 page 48. Although this configuration appeared to be popular well into the first two decades of the 18th century, Edwin Banfield suggests (BAROMETERS Stick or Cistern Tube page 18) that the use of fretwork in the case indicates a date prior to 1700.
A collection of seven gold and gems set Victorian and later stick pins, to include; A diamond and fire opal three stone pin; A diamond and blue paste two stone pins; A diamond and amethyst three stone pin; An opal and diamond five stone pin; Two diamond three stone pins, and A diamond single stone pin. (7)
An antique sword stick possibly from the far East, the blade decorated with engraved flowers, length of blade 72.5cm with bamboo hilt and ivorine terminal in the form of a dogs head, with red eyes, together with a bamboo scabbard (af), also in this lot is a gentleman`s walking cane with black stained shaft with curved horn handle with engraved silver end and matching silver ferule, the ferule hallmarked for Chester.
A MISCELLANY OF JEWELLERY ITEMS to include a modern 9ct gold sleeved CIGAR PIERCER, a 9ct gold BAR BROOCH set oval amethyst, small quantity of coloured STONES and GLASS, SWIVEL STICK, horseshoe TIE PIN, two paste BROOCH PINS, past pearl RING, silver coloured metal BANGLE, and various other costume items
Third Reich insignia etc: SS enlisted man`s green painted steel buckle; 2 similar plain steel buckles (slightly worn and pitted); and a relic aluminium ditto; pair of LAH silver epaulette insignia, pair SS tropical helmet metal badges; a stick pin badge, an SS skull in LDO box, and an original carton for 16 9mm Luger cartridges containing 8 original inert cartridges. Average GC
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