LOUIS CASELLA - LONDON
Good quality and unusual long-range
brass-cased Station Barometer - No. 977 - mounted
on to mahogany back-board, with silvered brass
extended scale reading to 20 inches [510mm].
The rack-and-pinion operated vernier over Fahrenheit
and Centigrade Thermometer; the trunk with concealed
original cistern tube terminating in typical
Fortin type reservoir. The trunk bears the maker’s
signature and ‘Makers to the Admiralty
and Ordnance’
c1880
One of the country’s leading makers of
meteorological instruments of the latter 19th
and early 20th Century.
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