Gugeri, London, a mahogany stick barometer the silvered dial...

Hammer

£110

Gugeri, London, a mahogany stick barometer the silvered dial signed Gugeri, London and engraved with stylised barometer markings and vernier gauge, the mahogany case with visible tube and having inlaid boxwood and ebonised stringing, a turned cistern to the base, glazed door to the dial and surmounted by an architectural pediment with brass finial, height 98cm. Gugeri were a well-known family of barometer makers including Andrew working in Holborn and Hatton Garden in the early-to-mid 1800s and Felix working in Leather Lane, London from circa 1850.