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Victorian Anchor & Rope Barometer by Gray & Keen of Liverpool
REF: LA465096
£5,800
€6,767
$7,811
LoveAntiques Dealersince Jan 2019Approved item564 sales by dealer
LoveAntiques Dealersince Jan 2019Approved item564 sales by dealer
Description
Mid 19th Century Victorian antique anchor and rope barometer by Gray and Keen, Liverpool. The 10 ¾-inch silvered dial of this walnut barometer is set within the arms of an anchor and a coil of double twisted rope which passes over a ring handle. The dial is inscribed in Spanish and the scale in both Fahrenheit and ‘Beaumur’. It is The trunk inset with a thermometer. Inscribed Gray & Keen, Liverpool on the dial. English and Italian.
Gray and Keen from Liverpool exhibited in the Designers and Manufacturers Hall of the Great Exhibition of 1851. The official catalogue entry reads ‘Wheel barometer, designed for use in naval establishments’ and ‘Gothic wheel barometer’s. For a similar rope twist barometer by Gray & Keen, see Wick Antiques ‘Trafalgar, Trophies and Trade‘, p87.
measurements
Height:
37 in
Width:
17 in
declaration
Wick Antiques Ltd has clarified that the Victorian Anchor & Rope Barometer by Gray & Keen of Liverpool (LA465096) is genuinely of the period declared with the date/period of manufacture being c.1860
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Date of Manufacture:
c.1860
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This Victorian Anchor & Rope Barometer by Gray & Keen of Liverpool is located in Hampshire, United Kingdom
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