Victorian Wheel Barometer Commemorating the Life of the Duke of Wellington Dorfwych Similar carved scrollwork is provided

Similar carved scrollwork is provided on the outer case at the three and nine-o-clock positions of the dial and then the style follows to the base which is completed with two further scrolls surrounding a bunch of ripe grapes

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

Richard was awarded a silver medal by The Royal Scottish Society of Arts for his developments in meteorological instruments and published twenty seven papers on philosophical instruments between 1837 & 1868

The prettiest trinket and decidedly the most useful present you can make at this season is

Victorian Wheel Barometer Commemorating the Life of the Duke of Wellington Dorfwych Similar carved scrollwork is providedFor 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