A fine quality late Georgian period mahogany stick barometer of excellent proportions.

The top of the case has a full depth, swanneck pediment with turned bone paterae and urn finial and the bowed trunk is veneered in the finest mahogany. The ebonised urn shaped cistern cover at the base is flanked by inlaid ebony flutes. The engraved and silvered Register Plate reads from 27 to 31 inches by means of a vernier on the right hand side and shows the 7 traditional states of the weather on the left. The maker’s signature is engraved across the top of the plate.

Height: 39 ½ in (100 cm)

Width: 4 ¾ in (12 cm)

Depth: 3 in (7.5 cm)

* William Dowling is listed on page 72 of Edwin Banfield’s Barometer Makers and Retailers as working at Lincolns Inn Passage between 1822 and 1829. He manufactured and sold all kinds of instruments including barometers ‘of the best workmanship and according to the latest improvements’.

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