A GEORGE IV ROSEWOOD LARGE BANJO BAROMETER AND TIMEPIECE
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A GEORGE IV ROSEWOOD LARGE BANJO BAROMETER AND TIMEPIECE

RICHARD PINFOLD GANTHONY, LONDON, CIRCA 1830

Closed2 July 2014

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GBP 3,500

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A GEORGE IV ROSEWOOD LARGE BANJO BAROMETER AND TIMEPIECE
RICHARD PINFOLD GANTHONY, LONDON, CIRCA 1830
The case with swan neck pediment and urn finials, brass double-line inlay to the border, with silvered 12 inch barometer dial, detachable thermometer scale and hygrometer above, with enamelled timepiece dial signed ‘Ganthony/83 CHEAPSIDE/LONDON’, with single fusee movement
50 ½ in. (128.2 cm.) high; 14 in. (35.5 cm.) wide; 3 ¾in. (9.5 cm.) deep

Specialist note

This barometer belongs to a group produced mostly circa 1830 with both 12 inch dials and inset timepieces (Edwin Banfield 'Barometers, Wheel or Banjo', Trowbridge, 1985, pp. 85-91).