Furniture, Clocks, Pocket Watches & Tribal Art - 03 Apr 2012
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A large Victorian oak Gothic barometer
A large Victorian oak Gothic barometer, with bronze mounts, the colonnaded tower top with applied frogs and masks to heraldic seated griffins flanking a hung sheep, with a silvered dials inscribed PASTORELLI & RAPKIN, OPTICIANS 46 HATTON GARDEN LONDON, with adjustable verniers with engraved gilt panels of portcullis, rose and fleur de lys above a lancet shape silver thermometer dial with coiled tube, with colonnaded framing repeated to the sides, the base with similar lancet arches and pinnacled arches to a green man mask pendant, 61in (155cm) h.