A Fine Regency Mahogany London Made Flat-to-the-wall Bow fronted Stick Barometer

A FINE REGENCY MAHOGANY FLAT-TO-THE-WALL BOW FRONTED MERCURY STICK BAROMETER. and H. Fraser, London, early 19th century With swan neck pediment and cavetto cornice over rectangular bow-glazed silvered Vernier scale calibrated in barometric inches with the usual observations beneath signature A. & H. Fraser, LONDON, the ebony line-edged trunk of the same bowed profile incorporating Vernier setting squares to throat over inset bow-glazed mercury tube Fahrenheit and Reaumur scale thermometer within moulded ebony surround, the base with turned half vase cistern cover flanked by ebony vertical line strung canted angles over cavetto moulded underside incorporating level adjustment screw at the base of the cistern vase.99cm (39ins) high. A. And H. Fraser are recorded in Clifton, Gloria Directory of British Scientific Instrument Makers 1550-1851 as working from 3 New Bond Street, London, in 1816
A FINE REGENCY MAHOGANY FLAT-TO-THE-WALL BOW FRONTED MERCURY STICK BAROMETER. and H. Fraser, London, early 19th century With swan neck pediment and cavetto cornice over rectangular bow-glazed silvered Vernier scale calibrated in barometric inches with the usual observations beneath signature A. & H. Fraser, LONDON, the ebony line-edged trunk of the same bowed profile incorporating Vernier setting squares to throat over inset bow-glazed mercury tube Fahrenheit and Reaumur scale thermometer within moulded ebony surround, the base with turned half vase cistern cover flanked by ebony vertical line strung canted angles over cavetto moulded underside incorporating level adjustment screw at the base of the cistern vase.99cm (39ins) high. A. And H. Fraser are recorded in Clifton, Gloria Directory of British Scientific Instrument Makers 1550-1851 as working from 3 New Bond Street, London, in 1816