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A Carved Oak Barometer
A Carved Oak Barometer
Dimensions: H: 52 in / 132 cm | W: 19 in / 48.5 cm
PRICE: $20,400
A Carved Oak Barometer
This aneroid barometeris signed by the maker and has a thermometer above. It is housed in an extensively carved 'banjo' case with fruit and foliage and the bust of a hatted man from the Troubadour period. The silvered dial is inscribed ‘Manufacturers to Her Majesty’s Government’ and, by the maker, ‘E Cetti of Brook Street, 11 & 31 Brook Street, Holborn, London’.
Circa 1890
The Cetti Family are recorded from the early 19th Century in the Holborn area, and were noted in the London Gazette of 1876 as being makers of salinometers, hydrometers, etc
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