Remaining stock from a limited edition of 25 barometers being our last production of this most tradional British Stick Barometer before the E U ban on new mercury barometers came into force. (Oct 2009) . The scale copied from a hand engraved scale and inscribed P.Collins Merton. This Mahogany stick barometer with feathered veneer and chequered inlay with architectural pediment and round cistern cover, glazed hinged door with silvered dial and vernier and spirit thermometer. Specially commissioned for us, we made the tubes here and filled with triple distilled mercury. Some still available 2nd hand.

Orders for these need to be direct due to special delivery arrangements - collection by arrangement prefered.

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Simple mercury stick barometer of Victorian design, with Yew veneer, rounded top and ebonised spherical cistern cover with silvered dial and vernier with red spirit thermometer. A few 2nd hand models available

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A thin Mahogany cased Black strung Marine barometer with round top, thermometer inset to case and heavy brass cover to base. Mounted on heavy well machined short gimbal for display. Vernier adjusted by small knurled brass knob.
36" tall, 4" wide gimbal, top of barometer is 2" wide.
Orders for these need to be direct due to special delivery arrangements - collection by arrangement prefered.
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Admiral FitzRoy Barometer in gothic style design, an exact copy of an old baorometer chart which we produced specially for a restoration to a cuctomers barometer. Even the printing has colour shift as old ones did. The English Oak case hand polished, hand blown spirit filled thermometer and a copy of the patented transport device (see Mr Collins book on FitzRoy and his Barometers) only a few left made before teh EU ban on Mercury barometer making.
Orders for these need to be direct due to special delivery arrangements - collection by arrangement prefered.
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This traditional design of stick barometer has a solid mahogany frame with a single line of boxwood stringing either side of the tube, a quarter astragal moulding down the trunk and around the base. The detailed decoratively turned cistern cover is copied from an original of this period, each barometer individually assembled. The register plates are made from brass, silvered by hand with a manually operated vernier behind a glazed mahogany door with boxwood stringing to edge. The hand blown thermometer with a large bulb is typical of these provincial type stick barometers of the 1830s. The swan neck pediment has hand carved ebonised scrolls and is mounted with cast finial made from an original pattern. SOLD OUT - unlikley to make more unless EU change their minds over banning sale of new mercury barometers or we can get around it legally.
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Invented by Frenchman William Amontons in 1688 in an effort to make the conventional mercury stick barometer more portable. This is truly an odd type of barometer. You may think mercury barometers have to be approx 30 inches tall - wrong! by folding the barometer tube in half and adding extra tube of oil the weight of two short colums of mercury connected by a column of oil reduces the overall height by half, ingenious design - but few old ones survive intact. The end tube open to atmospheric pressure also acts to expand the scale as in the contra tube barometers. Also has a thermometer, hygrometer at top and camphor glass to complete the intrigue. We will NOT send this item but callers can collect by arrangement if we have any left.
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This is similar to the above with, chevron inlay; the swan neck pediment is mounted with ivory pateraes (made from recycled ivory), the door and the trunk with black and white chevron and boxwood line inlay. The cistern cover has a single band of chequered chevron inlay and an inner turned circle of boxwood to traditional Georgian design. The silvered register plates also have a manually operated vernier using a small knurled knob.
The cases of both these stick barometers are shellac polished and hand finished in the traditional way. Each barometer is labelled and numbered on the back with the cabinetmaker's name and individually signed by Philip Collins on inspection. They are a classic style that will always look good. SOLD OUT

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We also stock a small selection of 2nd hand mercury and oil contra barometers in a variety of cases from modern to traditionaly inspired designs. - pictures and details yet to be posted here - ONLY collection by pre arrangement possible. Please phone before visiting