Mahogany wheel-shaped barometer
UK: JOHN Russell of Falkirk was a barometer maker to the Prince Regent and, as a result, this mahogany wheel-shaped example with the Prince of Wales feathers commanded considerable interest from leading London dealers at Woolley and Wallis’s Salisbury salerooms on July 4.
Similar to two other Russell barometers in Buckingham Palace, and possessing three scales and an ext…