ANTIQUE INDUSTRIAL SERIES DESK WEATHER STATION
£1,700.00
Out of stock
Circa 1895
Height: 9¼ inches / 23.5 cm
Width: 6¼ inches / 14.8 cm
Depth: 3 inches / 7.6 cm
Stock number: GD1058/0124
Price: £1700
An antique Industrial series desk weather station of nautical style. Set upon a shaped griotte marble base with gilt bronze plate below. The fine anchor in silvered bronze with carrying loop and a fahrenheit and centigrade thermometer with engraved silver plate to the stem. Set on the point of each anchor fluke in a gilt bronze drum case is an aneroid thermometer on the left and an 8 day clock with lever escapement on the right. Each of the drum cases is encircled by a thick twist of rope in gilt bronze and then attached by finer twists of rope to the anchor bar and its flukes. Superb original condition. French.
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