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Decoratively Mounted Wall Thermometer, by Elliott Brothers, London, c.1880

Inventory Number 13482


Item type
Object
Provenance
Presented by the Marconi Corporation in 2003. Elliott Collection 1044.
Primary inscriptions
Signed on ceramic plate: 'ELLIOTT BRO.. | 449, Strand | London'.
Physical material
Glass
Pottery
Wood
mercury
Object type
Thermometer
Dimensions
Height: 570mm Width: 145mm Depth: 40mm
Inventory No
13482
Accession Number
2003-11

Description

Broken. Domestic wall thermometer. Thermometer mounted on ceramic plate, framed in an elaborately shaped wooden frame. Scale reads in both fahrenheit (left) and centigrade (right), and in addition the points of 'Blood Heat' and 'Freezing' are indicated by words. Recess at top of frame for missing plaque. The ceramic plate is badly broken at the middle, the same breakage having broken the thermometer, only the top half of the tube being present.

Elliotts were at 449 Strand 1863-86.