Victorian Wheel Barometer Commemorating the Life of the Duke of Wellington Dorfwych one and a half inch

one and a half inch objectives and two adjustable metal eyeshades both engraved to

Comprised of four-and-a-half-inch card dial with divisions for 28 to 31 inches of barometric pressure to the upper half

Under this ownership

An advert for the lens that appears in the Comic Almanack in 1836 reads:

Presumably intended as a miniature form of the Robinson’s cup anemometer with the compactness of the miner’s air meter dial

Victorian Wheel Barometer Commemorating the Life of the Duke of Wellington Dorfwych one and a half inchFor sale, a highly unusual Victorian wheel barometer commemorating the death of The Duke of Wellington. The body is comprised entirely from oak and lavishly carved throughout. The pediment of the barometer is peaked with five carved Royal ostrich feathers in emulation of those which graced Wellingtons Funeral Car. They surround a carved relief portrait medallion of Wellington himself with a leaf surround. The neck below is equally embellished with a