Beschreibung:

A Regency brass mounted mahogany mercury cistern tube stick barometer Bate, London, circa 1815 The ebony line strung case with swan neck pediment applied with cavetto projections to sides over circular slivered hydrometer engraved Moist Air/Dry Air to centre behind glazed cast brass bezel and rectangular glazed silvered brass Vernier scale calibrated in barometric inches and with the usual observations beneath engraved signature Bate, London to upper margin set behind hinged brass-framed glazed door, the caddy moulded trunk inset with large Fahrenheit scale mercury tube thermometer behind conforming brass-framed arch glazed door, the rounded base with moulded circular cistern and level adjustment screw to underside, 111cm (43.75ins) high excluding finial. The current lot is almost certainly by Robert Brettell Bate who is recorded in Clifton, Gloria Directory of British Scientific Instrument Makers 1550-1851 as working from Poultry, London 1808-42 and then 33 Royal Exchange 1846-47. Bate was known as a maker of all types of instrument however was celebrated for his nautical instruments including marine barometers and latterly was appointed ‘Instrument-maker to Her Majesty’s Honourable Boards if Excise and Customs’. Condition report disclaimer