Over 30 inches in length, this elegant long-case barometer/thermometer is a beauty. Ornately decorated, it is in pretty good condition. There is a small loss of detail in one spot and no thermometer tube mercury tube now considered dangerous and not shippable. Everything is visible in the photos. Is the barometer accurate? How do I know? This old one uses the old inches-of-mercury scale, and now they compute barometric pressure in kilometres per hectolitre or something – I haven’t a clue. It does move with the change of weather. The face is engraved Made for Eaves and Bessette “The Downtown Jewellers Montreal” along with maker Short and Mason England, and Tycos, London. Montreal retail merchants were having clocks and instruments marked with their store brands for 100 years, and it adds another chapter in the history of this oldie to have that. The thermometer tube can be replaced with a red-line one pretty easily, but if I were doing it I would fake it for the classic look by installing a plain glass tube with silver paint on the reverse to look like a mercury tube. The instrument hangs in your home which is kept about the same temperature all the time anyhow, so it will look accurate. The item “Short and Mason Tycos Long Case Aneroid Barometer” is in sale since Friday, May 7, 2021. This item is in the category “Antiques\Science & Medicine (Pre-1930)\Scientific Instruments\Barometers”. The seller is “jim.katz” and is located in Senneville, Quebec. This item can be shipped to Canada, United States.
- Maker: Short and Mason London England
- Original/Reproduction: Original
- Time Period Manufactured: Pre-1930
