A VERY FINE VICTORIAN WALNUT STICK BAROMETER

T. ARMSTRONG & BROTHER, MANCHESTER: a particularly fine quality and thoroughly original Victorian STICK BAROMETER in perfect working order. This is a lovely example ~ elegant and not too ornate ~ with a well-figured burr walnut case which incorporates a restrained carved pediment and a carved walnut cistern cover. The ivory resister plates are beautifully engraved with the scales and complete with twin moving cursors, that enable barometric pressure measurements to be made with an accuracy of to one hundreth of an inch.

To the trunk is the mercury thermometer, also in perfect working order, whilst this fine barometer retains both of its original walnut register keys, which is quite rare. Delivery free of charge 100 miles around Bath (to include London).  (NB: Ivory Registration Ref:  S7NZNYBE to hand)

** Joseph Armstrong (died 1851) set up his business as jeweller and silversmith in Deansgate in 1825. He had three sons, of which Thomas took over the business and expanded it to include the manufacture of spectacles (having been apprenticed to an optician) and instruments. In 1868 he took his brother George into the business and re-named it “Thomas Armstrong & Brother”.  This barometer can be dated c1870-1885.

*** Please note that this is not on view in the shop; for further details telephone 07860 818212 or e-mail in the normal way.