The weather station was made for a store Gamage of London, England. My best guess is the piece is from the late 1800s to early 1900s. The barometer has a nice looking porcelain face on it, no hairlines in the face. The adjusting screw and arrow still operate. The barometer face is 7.75 across. Piece is 9.5 inches wide with brass around the porcelain face. The length is 27 inches long. The mercury in the thermometer keeps accurate temperature. The banjo shape has nice detailed carving. The back has a brass latch for hanging. Please ask any questions and if you want more pictures, just ask. It is a beautiful, well kept piece. Butterflies are: blue irredesent morphs, white zebra yellow tails and yellow cabbage. Some information about the name, Gamage, shown on the barometer face which was a high end store, not the maker of the weather station. Gamages was a department store founded by Mr. Gamage at 116-128 Holborn in Central London. The store closed in 1972, but prior to that had been unusual inasmuch as its premises were away from the main Oxford Street shopping area, being on the edge of the City of London at Holborn. Arthur Walter Gamage was the son of a Herefordshire farmer who was apprenticed to a London draper in St Paul’s churchyard. The owner assured them that a hosiery shop would do well in the area. The frontage was no more than five feet and above it Gamage hung his motto Tall Oaks from Little Acorns Grow. The partners lived in the back room of the shop and allowed themselves no more than fourteen shillings a week for their living expenses. Because of the piecemeal expansion, his Department Store ended up as a maze of rooms, steps, passages and ramps which Gamage now called the People’s Popular Emporium. Children and adults alike experienced something of an adventure as they wandered through the warren in search of bargains. It offered a very wide selection of goods, including haberdashery, furniture, sporting goods, gardening supplies and utensils, camping equipment, magic tricks, and clothing. Gamage went on to become the official supplier of uniforms to the Boy Scout movement and continued to expand. In 1911, for example, 49 pages of his 900 page catalogue were devoted to bicycles. The Holborn premises closed in March 1972 and disappeared in the massive redevelopment scheme which now occupies the site. The frontage on Holborn that was Gamages was in 2009 occupied by a W. Smith stationery store and the offices above are now occupied by French technology specialists Steria. Please check out our other Timeless Tokens store listings as we are regularly adding new items. We specialize in vintage artwork, books, collectibles, furniture, musical instruments, paper ephemera, marine/nautical, and clocks/watches. Thanks for your business. The item “Antique English Weather Station Gamage, London Banjo Mahogany Case works great” is in sale since Wednesday, October 26, 2016. This item is in the category “Antiques\Science & Medicine (Pre-1930)\Scientific Instruments\Barometers”. The seller is “gregbr07_8″ and is located in Coram, New York. This item can be shipped to United States.
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