Sworders Fine Interiors 10th & 11th September 2019

Lot 195 A gold-plated pocket barometer by Negretti & Zambra, the dial inscribed ‘Whiteside Cook’s Sea Level Aneroid patent no. 14424, Negretti and Zambra, London 148’, the back with presentation engraving ‘… Dr W. A. Carling…Nottingham meeting of the British Medical Association 1892’, 5cm diameter x 1.05cm deep, a barometer/ altimeter, in an 18ct gold case, 35mm diameter, and a smaller gold-plated fob, 25mm diameter, each in leather case (3) £400 - 600 Lot 196 Three pocket barometer/ altimeters, the first in a brass case, 0-1000 feet, by MDS London, 5cm diameter, 1.7cm high, the second in a brass case, 0-8000 feet, with enamel dial, 4.7cm diameter, 1.7cm deep, and the third in a chrome-plated case, by ‘H. Hughes & Son, London’, in a leather case, 4.7cm diameter, 2cm deep (3) £300 - 500 Lot 197 A silver pocket barometer, by ‘T.B. Winter, Newcastle on Tyne’, the engine turned case hallmarked for Benjamin Alfred Green, London 1874, 5cm diameter 1.8cm deep, and a brass-cased pocket barometer/ altimeter, minus 1000-8000 feet, by ‘J.H. Steward Ltd, 406 and 457 Strand, London’, in a leather case, 4.7cm diameter 1.7cm deep (2) £300 - 500 Lot 198 A silver hunter cased barometer/altimeter, 0-10000, by ‘Aitchison & Co., Optician to H.M. Govt., London and Leeds’, the engine turned case hallmarked for Albert Thomas Oliver, London 1905, in a leather case, 5cm diameter 1.5cm deep £300 - 500 Lot 199 A brass-cased weather watch/altimeter, 0-3000 feet (on side) by Negretti & Zambra, patent B276/15 with stem wind operated revolving centre and three alphabet windows: ‘Full’, ‘Rise’ and ‘Steady’, back with alphabet codes in radiating sectors, 5.3cm diameter x 1.75cm deep £400 - 600 Lot 200 A silver-plated barometer/altimeter, 0-9000 feet, by the ‘Army and Navy Co-operative Society Ltd.’, the back inscribed ‘Army & Rifle Meeting, Portsmouth 1879 won by T.R. Swinburne’, in a leather case, 17.5cm diameter, and a brass-cased pedometer/ barometer/altimeter, 0-8,000 feet, by ‘J.H. Steward, 54 Cornhill, London’, double-sided, 4.8cm diameter 2.5cm high (2) £300 - 500 Lot 201 Three brass-cased pocket barometers, the first inscribed ‘Hutchinson’s Improved Surveying Aneroid, Compensated Keep the eye level with the needle…’ with side handle, 5cm diameter 1.7cm deep the second by F. McIlroy, Mancheste r with open centre, 4.6cm diameter 1.8cm deep, and the third with curved thermometer, 4.7cm diameter 1.9cm deep, in a leather case (3) £400 - 600 49 www.sworder.co.uk 177-201 A COLLECTION OF POCKET BAROMETERS