A fine George III period architectural stick barometer with a broken pedimented top surmounted by a turned wood cup and cover finial. The States of the Weather read on the silvered brass Vernier scale in inches as follows:

                  Very Dry                                            31                                                     

                  Sett Fair                                            

                   FAIR                                                  30

                   Changeable                                          

                   RAIN                                                 29

                   Mch Rain                                             

                   Storm                                                28

The beautifully turned mahogany cistern cover at the base sits above a gothic fretwork plinth of very unusual form. The mercury filled glass tube is visible the length of the trunk.                         

Date: circa 1785 – 1795

Height: 43 ½ in (110.5 cm) including finial

Height: 41 ¼ in (105 cm) excluding finial

*  George Brown was a well known clock and instrument maker in Beverley and it is very interesting that he is thought to have been active in York for a time. The case of this architectural stick barometer bears a strong likeness to those made and  signed by Batty and Jonathan Storr of York. George Brown is listed on page 109 of Brian Loomes’s Clockmakers of the World: 21^st Century Edition as working in Beverley, Yorkshire from 1781 – 1800. It is stated he was possibly in York prior to 1785.

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