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Robert Banks - London. Unusually slender Georgian mahogany Stick Barometer. circa 1810.
Most attractive and unusual, early 19th Century mahogany Stick Barometer. The arched top with delicately engraved, silvered brass register plate bearing manually-operated vernier slide.
The slender trunk, inlaid with boxwood and ebony banding, concealing original barometer cistern tube, which terminated within urn shaped cistern cover. Circa 1810.
An eminent instrument-maker, Banks was Optician to the Prince of Wales [later George IV], trading from premises at 440 and 441 Strand, London.
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