Similar to two other Russell barometers in Buckingham Palace, and possessing three scales and an extra gearing for the hydrometer, the 3ft 113/4in (1.21m) barometer sold to the London trade at £71,000 (plus 15/10 per cent buyer’s premium).
Mahogany wheel-shaped barometer
UK: JOHN Russell of Falkirk was a barometer maker to the Prince Regent and, as a result, this mahogany wheel-shaped example with the Prince of Wales feathers commanded considerable interest from leading London dealers at Woolley and Wallis’s Salisbury salerooms on July 4.
