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12<br />

12<br />

A mahogany mercury wheel<br />

barometer<br />

Pastorelli & Co. London,<br />

circa 1840<br />

The 8 inch circular silvered register<br />

calibrated in inches and with star<br />

engraved centre beneath bowfronted<br />

Fahrenheit scale alcohol thermometer<br />

and hygrometer to the swan neck<br />

pediment, the cavetto moulded square<br />

base with spirit level signed Pastorelli &<br />

Co. 4 Cross Street, Hatton Garden,<br />

London, beneath bone setting pointer<br />

adjustment disc, 100cm high.<br />

Pastorelli & Co. are recorded in<br />

Banfield, Edwin BAROMETER<br />

MAKERS AND RETAILERS 1660-1900<br />

as working from 4 Cross St., Hatton<br />

Garden, London circa 1825-45.<br />

£200-300<br />

8<br />

13<br />

13<br />

A Regency inlaid mahogany<br />

mercury wheel barometer<br />

D. Ortelli, early 19th century<br />

The 8 inch circular silvered star-centred<br />

register calibrated in inches, signed<br />

D. Ortelli, Warranted and with brass<br />

setting pointer to glass beneath arched<br />

Fahrenheit scale alcohol thermometer<br />

flanked by conch shell inlaid oval<br />

paterae, with circular rosettes to the<br />

broken triangular pediment and<br />

rounded base, 97cm high.<br />

£200-300<br />

14<br />

14<br />

A Victorian rosewood mercury<br />

wheel barometer<br />

Unsigned, 19th century<br />

The 8 inch circular rosette-centre<br />

engraved silvered register calibrated in<br />

inches beneath circular mirror and<br />

arched Fahrenheit scale mercury<br />

thermometer and hygrometer to the<br />

swan neck pediment, the rounded<br />

base with spirit level inscribed<br />

WARRANTED CORRECT, with setting<br />

pointer adjustment disc, 95cm high.<br />

£150-250<br />

www.dnfa.com/donnington

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