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Aneroid Desk Barometer by C W Dixey c.1850 (1 of 7)
Wick Antiques Ltd
Flag of United KingdomHampshire, UK
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Aneroid Desk Barometer by C W Dixey c.1850

REF: LA186781
£3,800
€4,439
$4,780
Certified DealerApproved item423 sales by dealer
Certified DealerApproved item423 sales by dealer
Description
An aneroid desk barometer by C W Dixey, the 4inch silvered dial with blued indicator and gilt recorder needles divided to 32 millibars, with curved bar Fahrenheit thermometer, the gilt brass case engraved ‘Sold by C. W. Dixey, Optician to the Queen, New Bond St, London’, and set behind a glass viewing port into a sloping birds-eye maple box with ebony stringing and a similar inscription set into the top, with the original key, English.
measurements
Height:
5 IN
Width:
7 IN
declaration
Wick Antiques Ltd has clarified that the Aneroid Desk Barometer by C W Dixey c.1850 (LA186781) is genuinely of the period declared with the date/period of manufacture being c.1850
location
This Aneroid Desk Barometer by C W Dixey c.1850 is located in Hampshire, United Kingdom

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