Carpenter & Westley
- London
Good quality Cuban mahogany Stick Barometer;
the ‘break-arch’ pediment, over
engraved silvered brass register plate, signed
by the makers and bearing manually operated
vernier. The trunk, of well-patinated mahogany,
edge moulded, and with original exposed barometer
tube terminating within hemispherical cistern
cover.
c1830
On the death of her husband,
Philip [a well-respected Birmingham instrument
maker], Mary Carpenter went into partnership
with William Westley, setting up premises in
24 Regent St., London in 1828. The firm subsequently
flourished for nearly 100 years
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