Tunbridge Ware – An Obelisk Style Desktop Thermometer c1885

Description

Heading : Tunbridge Ware – An Obelisk Style Desktop Thermometer c1885
Date : c1885
Period : Victorian
Origin : Tunbridge Wells; England
Decoration : numerous small-scale mosaic patterns. including geometric bands. Berlin wool-work and a panel of small isometric cubes; fahrenheit gauge engraved and stained in to bone set behind the mercury thermometer
Size : 19.4 cm high – base is 6.0 cm square
Condition : Excellent; all tesserae in place and firmly seated. thermometer working
Restoration : None

Weight : 89 grams

Notes : All the usual suspects made thermometers of varying kinds. but the use of red lining paper on the base (of which traces remain). and the nature of the other components places this example firmly under the remit of Mr Thomas Barton