We specialise in the more decorative scientific instruments which can make interesting focal points in the modern home.
Delivery of scientific instruments is free in England and Wales and we will be pleased to arrange packing and shipping of any item, to anywhere in the world. Last updated 2 May 2010 |
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 | Francis Howel, London c1750
A George II, 9¼ inches diameter, bronze horizontal sundial engraved with the maker's name F Howel, London.
Above the maker's name is an engraved monogram. The centre of the dial is also engraved with an 8-point compass rose.
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 | Charles Wastell Dixey, London c1850
A portable equinoctial sundial in its original leather case, signed on the hour plate C W Dixey 3 New Bond Street London.
Dixey held various British Royal appointments including Optician and Mathematical Instrument Maker to Queen Victoria. He also held overseas appointments to the King and Queen of Hanover and the King of Belgium. Dixey exhibited at the Great Exhibition of 1851 in London.
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 | Richard & Henry Frankham, London c1845
A mahogany bow-front stick barometer with thermometer, signed on the silvered register plates Frankham 12 Wilson Stt Grays Inn Rd London.
The barometer has a boxwood cistern; the scale is calibrated from 27 to 31 inches of mercury and is fitted with a vernier operated by a bone knob. The mahogany veneered case which conceals the tube has a turned and ebonised cistern cover and curved glass over the pressure and temperature scales.
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 | C. W. Dixey & Son, London c1920
An 8-day barograph in an oak case with a chart drawer below. The barograph is engraved for the retailer C. W. Dixey & Son Opticians to the King 3 New Bond St London W.
The barograph is complete with glass ink bottle and dipper, and a year's supply of charts.
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 | J.B. Dancer, Manchester c1860
A scientific barometer on the Fortin principle signed on the silvered scale J.B. Dancer, Optician, Manchester No. 282.
The instrument has a black painted tube with a thermometer mounted on the front.
The barometer scale reads from 27 to 32.5 inches of mercury, the thermometer scale from 25 to 110 degrees Fahrenheit.
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 | English Scientific Barometer c1850
A rare mid-nineteenth century scientific barometer with a large diameter tube and a movable scale so that the zero position may be accurately set to the level of mercury in the short limb.
The barometer and a thermometer are mounted on a mahogany backboard.
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 | John Trotter Ltd, Glasgow & Edinburgh c1930
An 8-day barograph in an oak case with chart drawer below.
The barograph is engraved for the retailer John Trotter Ltd 40, Gordon St. Glasgow. 100, George St. Edinburgh.
The barograph is complete with its original glass ink bottle and dipper, and a year’s supply of charts.
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 | George Stebbing, Portsmouth c1840
A George IV mahogany marine mercury barometer with thermometer and its original brass gimbals mounting; signed on the silvered register plates Geo,, Stebbing Portsmouth Optician &c to her Majesty.
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 | Smith & Beck, London c1855
A good Victorian lacquered brass compound achromatic microscope, complete with its original case and accessories, signed and numbered on the body tube Smith & Beck 6 Coleman St London 1838.
The instrument and its accessories retain much of their original lacquer.
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