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A Queen Anne style walnut mercury pillar barometer Unsigned, in the manner of Daniel Quare, proba

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A Queen Anne style walnut mercury pillar barometer Unsigned, in the manner of Daniel Quare, proba
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A Queen Anne style walnut mercury pillar barometer Unsigned, in the manner of Daniel Quare, probably early 20th century The rectangular glazed two-piece silvered scale divided for barometric inches and annotated with summer and winter observations beneath comment Fair if Rise, Foul if Fall to upper margin, the top with brass finial-shaped recording pointer adjustment screws above tube concealed within Doric column-turned upright with cavetto moulded upstand to capital and brass collars to the spiral fluted lower section of the shaft, the base with moulded cylindrical cistern incorporating pendant finial for level adjustment to underside, 99cm (39ins) high.

A Queen Anne style walnut mercury pillar barometer Unsigned, in the manner of Daniel Quare, probably early 20th century The rectangular glazed two-piece silvered scale divided for barometric inches and annotated with summer and winter observations beneath comment Fair if Rise, Foul if Fall to upper margin, the top with brass finial-shaped recording pointer adjustment screws above tube concealed within Doric column-turned upright with cavetto moulded upstand to capital and brass collars to the spiral fluted lower section of the shaft, the base with moulded cylindrical cistern incorporating pendant finial for level adjustment to underside, 99cm (39ins) high.

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