Frederick Bird -
London
Most elegant and rare
mid-18th Century mahogany Stick Barometer; the
arched top with silvered brass register plate,
classically engraved, with manually operated
vernier slide, and signed by the maker; the
trunk, edge-moulded, with book-matched 'herringbone'
veneers and the exposed barometer tube terminating
in hemispherical cistern cover. Originally the
barometer had a simple tube within an ‘open
cistern’ reservoir, whose evidence remains,
together with the very unusual large air-trap
globe at the top.
c1760
Brother of the more illustrious John, Frederick
died of typhoid in 1772. Few of his pieces survive.
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