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  • Stick barometer – John Augustus, Falmouth – ca. 1820
  • Stick barometer – John Augustus, Falmouth – ca. 1820
  • Stick barometer – John Augustus, Falmouth – ca. 1820
Stick barometer – John Augustus, Falmouth – ca. 1820

2000 €


A Regency mahogany mercury cistern tube marine stick barometer John Augustus, Falmouth, circa 1820 With brass suspension ring above hinged rectangular door enclosing canted silvered vernier register plates annotated with the usual observations and signed John Augustus, Falmouth to lower left hand corner, the inside of the door applied with mercury centigrade thermometer, the rectangular section trunk with brass-sleeved gimbal pivot holes to the slightly bowed sides above stepped moulded cylindrical lacquered brass cistern cover with brass level adjustment screw to underside, (gimbals lacking), 95cm (33.5ins) high. John Anthony Augustus is recorded in Banfield, Edwin BAROMETER MAKERS AND RETAILERS 1660-1900 as a mathematical instrument maker who worked from Church Street, Falmouth, circa 1815-35. Een Regency mahonie mahonie kwikreservoir buis marine stok barometer John Augustus, Falmouth, circa 1820 Met koperen ophangring boven scharnierende rechthoekige deur die gekantelde verzilverde nonius registerplaten omsluit, geannoteerd met de gebruikelijke waarnemingen en gesigneerd John Augustus, Falmouth naar linker benedenhoek, de binnenkant van de deur aangebracht met kwikthermometer, de rechthoekige sectie kofferbak met cardanische scharniergaten met messing mouwen naar de licht gebogen zijkanten boven getrapt gegoten cilindrisch gelakt messing stortbakdeksel met messing niveau-instelschroef aan de onderkant, (cardanische ophanging ontbreekt), 95 cm (33,5 inch) hoog . John Anthony Augustus is opgenomen in Banfield, Edwin. BAROMETERMAKERS EN DETAILHANDELAREN 1660-1900 als maker van wiskundige instrumenten die rond 1815-35 in Church Street, Falmouth werkte.

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