Ω A George III mahogany mercury stick barometer with hygrometer Wisker, York, circa 1800 The ebony banded case with swan-neck pediment and cavetto cornice above inset silvered Vernier scale calibrated in barometric inches and with the usual observations beneath signature Wisker, York to upper margin set behind flush-fronted glazed door, the trunk with hygrometer over conforming inset silvered Fahrenheit scale mercury tube thermometer with decorative border to the bulb aperture and leaf crest to upper margin behind flush glazed cover, the rounded base with circular moulded domed cistern cover, (part dis-assembled), 96cm (37.75ins) high. Provenance: Private collection Hampshire (B163). A Matthew Wisker is recorded in Banfield, Edwin BAROMETER MAKERS & RETAILERS 1660-1900 as working from Spurriergate, York 1777-1804. He was succeeded by his son, John, who presumably continued the business until his death in 1822. The firm was subsequently managed by John s widow, Elizabeth, who in-turn passed it on to their son, Matthias in 1827.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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Ω A Regency mahogany bowfronted mercury stick barometer Henry Andrews, Royston, circa 1820 With curved swan-neck pediment and cavetto moulded cornice over silvered Vernier scale calibrated in barometric inches and with the usual observations beneath signature Hen y Andrews, Royston to upper margin, behind bowed glass within moulded surround above trunk with the same bowed profile incorporating Vernier setting screw over flat fronted inset mercury tube Fahrenheit scale thermometer, the base with turned ebony half vase cistern cover flanked by canted angles decorated with ebony lozenge inlay over cavetto moulded underside incorporating level adjustment screw, 100cm (39.5ins) high. Provenance: From the collection of the late John Marsh of Lawnsford House, South Staffordshire. William Henry Andrews is recorded in Banfield, Edwin BAROMETER MAKERS & RETAILERS 1660-1900 as working in Royston circa 1790-1830. He was succeeded by his son, also called William, who worked until circa 1860.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
A George III style mahogany mercury column stick barometer Unsigned, 20th century With ogee moulded cornice over glazed rectangular door enclosing brass Vernier scale calibrated in barometric inches with the usual observations over trunk carved as a fluted column with brass Corinthian capital over rectangular box cistern cover with chevron veneers to fascia between moulded upper and lower margins and with level adjustment screw to underside, 95cm (37.5ins) high.
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 oak mercury stick barometer Lawson and Son, Brighton, third quarter of the 19th century With moulded pediment and cavetto cornice above rectangular 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 LAWSON & SON, OLD STREET, BRIGHTON , the trunk with Vernier setting squares to throat above applied glazed mercury tube Fahrenheit and Centigrade scale thermometer decorated with moulded upper and lower rails, the base of circular outline applied with domed cistern cover with level adjustment square to underside, 95cm (37.5ins) high. Provenance: Private collection Hampshire (ref. B90); purchased at H.Y. Duke and Son, Dorchester, 9th December 1999 (lot 1067) for £450 hammer. Thomas Lawson and Son are recorded in Loomes, Brian Watchmakers & Clockmakers of the World, Volume 2 as working in Brighton 1870-78.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
A Victorian brass Kew Pattern marine mercury stick barometer configured for use on land Adie and Wedderburn, Edinburgh, second half of the 19th century The cylindrical silvered scale calibrated in barometric inches divided to twentieths and with Vernier slide fitted flush within the tube viewing aperture, the vertical left hand margin signed ADIE & WEDDERBURN, EDINBURGH. the lower margin engraved No. 760, set behind cylindrical glass collar with Vernier adjustment screw and gimballed support over applied mercury tube Fahrenheit scale thermometer to the narrow trunk below, the base with moulded cylindrical iron cistern cover braced within further supporting ring to lower edge, 94cm (37ins) high; applied to original ogee moulded oak wall panel, 105cm (41.25ins) high overall. Provenance: Private collection Hampshire (ref. B27). Alexander Adie is recorded in Banfield, Edwin BAROMETER MAKERS AND RETAILERS 1660-1900 as born 1775 and dying in 1858. Adie was the nephew of John Miller, one of the leading Scottish makers of Scientific Instruments in the 18th century and was apprenticed to him in 1789. In 1804 they formed the partnership of Miller and Adie which continued until the death of John Miller in 1815. Adie continued the business alone specialising in meteorological instruments obtaining a patent in 1818 for his air barometer or sympiesometer. In recognition of this invention he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1819. He was appointed optician to William IV and later Queen Victoria after forming a partnership with his son, John, in 1835 to form Adie & Son. John's brother, Richard, moved to Liverpool where he set-up business in Bold Street in 1835. He employed Thomas Wedderburn as a foreman in Edinburgh through whom the current lot was probably supplied. The current lot is made to the pattern of standard marine barometer devised by Patric Adie and John Welsh of the Kew observatory in 1855. Although the instrument is mounted via gimbals the cistern steadying ring and very close proximity of the oak board behind indicates that it was supplied for use on land possibly for a laboratory or meteorological station.
A fine George III mahogany bayonet-tube mercury stick barometer with large-scale thermometer Nairne and Blunt, London, circa 1780 The caddy moulded case inset with arched silvered Vernier scale calibrated in barometric inches to the right hand margin opposing weather observations to the left, the upper margin signed in a curve Nairne & Blunt, London and the lower edge decorated with an engraved leafy scroll flanked cavetto-shaped angles, the trunk applied with full-height silvered-scale spirit thermometer calibrated in Fahrenheit with scale divided in degrees annotated 0-110 opposing markers inscribed Freezing, Temprate and Blood Heat, over pierced brass bulb shield and circular base applied with half sphere cistern cover incorporating level adjustment screw to underside, 96.5cm (38ins) high. Provenance: Private collection Hampshire (ref. B14); purchased at Mallams, Oxford, June 1982 for £1,050 hammer. The collaboration between Edward Nairne and his former apprentice Thomas Blunt is recorded in Banfield, Edwin BAROMETER MAKERS AND RETAILERS 1660-1900 as established in 1774 and lasting until 1793. Edward Nairne was born in 1726 and apprenticed to the celebrated instrument maker, Matthew Loft, in 1741. Latterly he worked from 20 Cornhill and published numerous booklets on navigational, pneumatic and astronomical instruments. In 1776 Nairne devised a marine barometer with a restriction to the bore of the mercury tube which served to dampen the oscillation of the mercury, he was elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 1776 and died 1806. Thomas Blunt was apprenticed to Edward Nairne in 1760 with whom he formed a loose partnership in 1774, perhaps for mutual convenience as his premises were next door to Nairne's at 22 Cornhill. Blunt designed some of the components for the 'New Barometer' devised by the Portuguese Scientist J.H. Magellan for measuring altitude, and latterly became instrument maker to George III. In 1793 he took his son, also named Thomas, into partnership and subsequently relocated to 136 Minories in 1814, he died in 1822. An almost identical instrument to the current lot (signed by Nairne alone) is illustrated in Banfield, Edwin BAROMETERS, Stick or Cistern tube on page 75.
Ω A fine George III mahogany mercury stick barometer with hygrometer Gilbert, Wright and Hooke, London, circa 1800 The caddy moulded and ebony banded case with open triangular pediment and cavetto cornice above hygrometer with independent adjustment for the beard pointer via a brass turn-screw set beneath, over inset silvered Vernier scale calibrated in barometric inches to the right hand margin opposing weather observations to the left, the upper margin signed Gilbert, Wright & Hooke, London, set behind flush hinged glazed door, the trunk with Vernier adjustment square to throat over conforming inset silvered Fahrenheit scale mercury tube thermometer with brass protective cover to the bulb and recording slider to right hand edge behind hinged glazed cover, the rounded base with circular moulded domed cistern cover above brass level adjustment screw to underside, 112cm (44ins) high. Provenance: Private collection Hampshire (ref. B67); purchased from C.E. Hebden, Cambridge, 28h July 1997 for £2,750. The partnership between William Gilbert, Gabriel Wright and Benjamin Hooke Hooke are recorded in Clifton, Gloria Directory of British Scientific Instrument Makers 1550-1851 as working from Navigation Warehouse, 148 Leadenhall Street, London 1794-1801.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 George III mahogany mercury stick barometer Cately and Company, London, early 19th century With open triangular pediment above chevron bordered glazed door enclosing rectangular silvered Vernier scale calibrated in barometric inches and with the usual observations to the right opposing Fahrenheit scale spirit thermometer to the left, the upper margin signed Cately & Co. Ship Turnstile, Holborn , the caddy moulded trunk with exposed tube flanked by mahogany veneers with grain set at opposing forty-five degree angles within chevron-strung border, the conforming rounded base with hemispherical cistern cover centred with a turned ivory button, 96.5cm (38ins) high. Provenance: Private collection Hampshire (ref. B1); purchased from Lita Kaye of Lyndhurst, 12th July 1978 for £650 Cat(t)ely and Company are recorded in Banfield, Edwin BAROMETER MAKERS & RETAILERS 1660-1900 as working from 81 Holborn, London, circa 1810-30.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 George III style mahogany mercury stick barometer The register plate bearing a signature for William Harris, London, 20th century The ebony-edged case inset with arched silvered Vernier scale calibrated in barometric inches to the right hand margin opposing weather observations to the left, the upper margin bearing an engraved signature W m Harris, Optician, 22 Cornhill , the full width line-edged trunk with exposed tube flanked by mahogany veneers with grain set at opposing forty-five degree angles over rounded base applied with ebonised half sphere cistern cover incorporating level adjustment screw to underside, 94cm (37ins) high. Provenance: Private collection Hampshire (ref. B177).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 rare William IV or early Victorian mahogany and brass mercury portable mountain stick barometer John Newman, London, circa 1835 The slender circular section mahogany case incorporating slot applied with canted silvered brass Vernier scale calibrated in barometric inches from 18 inches to over 32 inches divided into twentieths and annotated 19-32 to right hand margin set behind brass revolving cylindrical shutter and with Vernier adjustment screw to cap, the waist applied with ivory collar engraved NEWMANS IMPROVED PORTABLE IRON CISTERN, 122 REGENT STREET, LONDON opposing annotations CORRECTION FOR CAPACITIES 1/50, NEUTRAL POINT 30.012, CAPILLARY ACTION +.038, TEMPERATURE 66 (degrees), the slightly tapered lower section with inset Fahrenheit mercury thermometer applied to ivory scale over two-part brass cased iron cistern, the lower part turning against a pinned slot engraved with two positions PORTABLE and NOT PORTABLE, 91.5cm (36ins) high; with original leather cylindrical carrying case. Provenance: Private collection, Hampshire (ref. B26). John Frederick Newman‚ is recorded in Banfield, Edwin BAROMETER MAKERS AND RETAILERS as working at 7 and 8 Lisle Street, London, 1816-25 then 122 Regent Street 1827-62 when the business was taken over by Negretti and Zambra. He made standard and portable barometers for James Clark Ross's Antarctic expeditions (1839-1843). In 1851 he exhibited at the Great Exhibition at the Crystal Palace and his meterological station barometers were used throughout the British Empire. Soon after the invention of the barometer in the 17th century it was observed that air pressure decreased with altitude. However, it was not until the latter part of the 18th century before an accurate mathematical relationship between height and drop in air pressure had been devised allowing barometers to be made with the intention of measuring altitude. The two-part iron cistern employed in the current lot was devised by Newman in 1833 to allow safe transport of the instrument. The construction of the cistern incorporates a valve mechanism which essentially shuts off the mercury column from the atmosphere when the lower half of the cylinder is rotated to the PORTABLE position. Newman s instructions for the use of the barometer advises that the instrument should be inverted before the cistern is closed-off presumably to prevent the mercury column from bouncing against the top of the column (potentially breaking the glass) and transported upside-down. Indeed the leather case present with the lot is designed for the instrument to be inverted before insertion. An almost identical instrument to the current lot was purchased by Charles Darwin in 1831 for use on the Beagle voyage (1831-36) and was presented to the Royal Society by the executors of his estate after his death in 1882.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
A substantial collection of barometer spares and accessories Various makers, early 19th century and later To include a complete Victorian mahogany mercury wheel barometer, unsigned, with swan neck pediment, hygrometer, mercury tube thermometer, 8 inch circular silvered register and spirit level, 97cm (38ins) high; a Negretti and Zambra ivorine weather foreteller; an aneroid wall barometer; various syphon an cistern tubes (some part filled); two brass gimbal assemblies; assorted stick and wheel barometer pediments; finials; register plates and bezels; wheel barometer mirrors and surrounds; thermometer tubes and other related items, (qty). Provenance: Private collection, Hampshire.
Barometers - twenty one titles: Goodison, Nicholas ENGLISH BAROMETERS 1680-1860 Antique Collectors' Club, Woodbridge 1977, dj; Goodison, Nicholas ENGLISH BAROMETERS 1680-1860 first edition, Cassell and Company Limited, London 1969, dj; Banfield, Edwin, a set of three works BAROMETERS, Wheel or Banjo; BAROMETERS, Stick or Cistern Tube and BAROMETERS, Aneroid and Barographs each published by Baros Books, Trowbridge, Wiltshire 1985, each with dj; Banfield, Edwin BAROMETER MAKERS AND RETAILERS 1660-1900 Baros Books, Trowbridge, Wiltshire 1991, softbound; Collins, Philip R. CARE AND RESTORATION OF BAROMETERS Baros Books, Trowbridge, Wiltshire 1990, softbound; Middleton, W. E. Knowles THE HISTORY OF THE BAROMETER John Hopkins Press, Baltimore MD 1964, dj; Collins, Philip R. BAROGRAPHS Baros Books, Trowbridge, Wiltshire 2002, softbound; Banfield, Edwin BAROMETER MAKERS AND RETAILERS 1660-1900 Baros Books, Trowbridge, Wiltshire 1991, softbound; Banfield, Edwin THE ITALIAN INFLUENCE ON ENGLISH BAROMETERS from 1780 Baros Books, inscribed by the author, Trowbridge, Wiltshire 1993, softbound; Banfield, Edwin The Banfield Family Collection of Barometers Baros Books, Trowbridge, Wiltshire 199, softbound; Collins, Philip R. ANEROID BAROMETERS AND THEIR RESTORATION Baros Books, Trowbridge, Wiltshire 1998, dj; Bolle, Bert BAROMETERS Argus Books Limited, Watford 1978, dj; Bell, G.H. and E.F. OLD ENGLISH BAROMETERS The Wykeham Press, Winchester 1952, dj; Negretti and Zambra A TREATISE ON METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS facsimile reprint of the 1864 edition originally published by the authors, Baros Books, Trowbridge, Wiltshire 1995, softbound; Belville, John Henry A MANUAL OF THE BAROMETER facsimile reprint of the 1858 third edition originally published by Taylor and Francis, Turner and Devereux, London 1975, softbound; Banfield, Edwin Antique Barometers - an illustrated survey Wayland Publications, signed by the author, Hereford 1977, staple softbound; Thoday, A.G. Barometers The Science Museum, London 1978, staple softbound; Rose, R.E. Looking After Your Barometer published by the author, London undated, staple softbound; Locke, John YOUR BAROMETER, BAROGRAPH OR ALTIMETER Brabourne Books, Brabourne 2003, softbound; McConnell, Anita BAROMETERS Shire Publication Limited, Haverfordwest, 1987, staple softbound; Archinard, BAROMETRES Musee d art et d histoire, Geneva 1978, softbound; and two volumes on Scientific Instruments, Wynter, Harriet and Turner, Anthony SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS Studio Vista, London 1975, dj, and Turner, Gerard L E ANTIQUE SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS Blandford Press, Poole 1980, dj, (23). Provenance: Private collection, Hampshire.
A late 18th century Dutch mercury tube stick barometer, mahogany, the pediment centered by a pellet, silvered fretted weather scale with registers 27-30/28-31 signed F. Chasartelli /Amsterdam, protected by hinged glass door, with another protecting the alcohol thermometer, also with fretted silvered scale, serpentine reservoir case at bottom, 111cm highThe Casartelli family (sic: as spelt in England) came from Tavernerio, Itlay, and a branch also set up in London under Luigi Casartelli as well as one in Amsterdam under his cousin Frederico.NB A similar barometer by this maker but in walnut and in excellent condition made £8,000 at Christies Amsterdam in 1999. Condition Report: Case generally dirty and distressed but apparently complete; tubes intact.
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