Richard Camotta - Halifax
Finely proportioned
and most attractive ‘Rio’ Rosewood
dwarf Wheel Barometer; the 'swan-neck' pediment
over strikingly figured case, inset with well
engraved silvered brass bow-fronted mercury
Fahrenheit thermometer and unusually small 41/2-inch
diameter main dial, signed by the maker.
c1830
A highly competent second generation Italian
immigrant instrument maker, listed also as ‘carver
and gilder’, who worked from premises
in Bull Close and Bull Green, Halifax from c1825-60
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