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ibson’s is delighted to announce our forthcoming Australian, Maritime & Exploration auction featuring items of Australian historical interest and importance including Australian and Colonial Furniture, Decorative Arts, Paintings and Early Photography, Scrimshaw, Artefacts, Goldfields and Convict interest, Militaria, Books and Documents. Leading the sale is the exquisite Australian silver cake clock, commissioned by the Myer Emporium in celebration of the Centenary of Melbourne in 1934, made by renowned silversmiths, Steeth & Son, of Melbourne Cup fame. At almost five kilograms of silver, this example is twice the size of the model in the collection of the National Gallery of Victoria and presents a unique opportunity for private collectors and institutions to acquire a piece of significant Victorian history.
ibson’s is delighted to announce our forthcoming Australian, Maritime & Exploration auction featuring items of Australian historical interest and importance including Australian and Colonial Furniture, Decorative Arts, Paintings and Early Photography, Scrimshaw, Artefacts, Goldfields and Convict interest, Militaria, Books and Documents.
Leading the sale is the exquisite Australian silver cake clock, commissioned by the Myer Emporium in celebration of the Centenary of Melbourne in 1934, made by renowned silversmiths, Steeth & Son, of Melbourne Cup fame. At almost five kilograms of silver, this example is twice the size of the model in the collection of the National Gallery of Victoria and presents a unique opportunity for private collectors and institutions to acquire a piece of significant Victorian history.
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A steel stick gimballed<br />
barometer by Short & Mason,<br />
London, circa 1950s<br />
marked to plaque, CBM 1881<br />
91cm high<br />
NOTE<br />
reputedly last hung at the<br />
Queensland Airport Weather Station<br />
$400–600<br />
234<br />
A mahogany cased barograph<br />
by Short & Mason, 20th century<br />
the case glazed to three sides, with<br />
brass barrel and paper, recording<br />
arm, 13 bellows, trademark and<br />
maker's name to the brass base<br />
plate, with a single drawer to the<br />
short end, with key<br />
29cm high, 44cm wide, 21.5deep<br />
$400–600<br />
235<br />
A steel stick gimballed ship’s<br />
barometer, 1962<br />
retailed by A.L Franklin Pty<br />
Ltd, Sydney, marked marine<br />
barometer MK 2<br />
96cm high<br />
$500–800<br />
236<br />
A rare Breguet instrument set,<br />
by Negretti & Zambra., Hatton<br />
Garden, London, circa 1890<br />
a portable barometer with two<br />
mercury tubes and pieces for<br />
assembly housed in a silk lined<br />
wooden case, the brass base plate<br />
marked Negretti & Zambra, Hatton<br />
Garden, London and numbered<br />
2274-I-1886, original tubes also with<br />
maker's marks<br />
the case 5cm high, 38.5cm wide,<br />
12cm deep<br />
$400–600<br />
237<br />
A vintage brass and painted<br />
cast metal portable mercury<br />
barometer, mid 20th century<br />
with a slender glass tube within<br />
the metal housing, with scaling<br />
marks, stamped AM with crown<br />
mark to base<br />
93cm high, 16.5cm wide<br />
$400–600<br />
238<br />
A mahogany mounted brass<br />
stick barometer, England,<br />
circa 1840s<br />
in the style of a mountaineer’s and<br />
balloonist’s barometer and printed<br />
to stick, ‘retailed by Otto Boettger,<br />
Adelaide’<br />
116cm high<br />
$500–800<br />
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