Furniture, Works of Art, Arms & Armour - 6th April 2016

Lot 219

An early Victorian mahogany bowfront stick barometer

Estimate £1,500 - £2,000 | Hammer £2200

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Description

An early Victorian mahogany bowfront stick barometer, the silvered register inscribed 'Arnold & Dent London', with a vernier scale, with a turned bone adjuster and a thermometer above an ebonized urn cistern cover, c.1840, 96cm high.

Provenance: The Property of the Rt. Hon. Sir Mathew Thorpe.