The arched top above silvered two-piece scales, the barometer dial signed Geo Burton, London, cranked mercury tube, above the full-length thermometer tube with pierced brass reservoir cover, above a turned mahogany sphere for the barometer reservoir, screw adjustment below
94cm high
**Please note this object contains mercury.
George Burton is recorded working 1772-1815 at 136 High Street, Borough, Southwark.
Two portable barometers by Burton were used by Cook on his second voyage in 1772 (see Sir Nicholas Goodison, English Barometers, London, 1977).
CONDITION REPORT
The barometer dial is slightly pitted and the lettering is not crisp. The thermometer scale is streaky and the engraved numbers are also not quite crisp. The woodwork seems to have been re-polished some time back. The tube appears to be functioning.
