For sale, a highly unusual Victorian wheel barometer commemorating the death of The Duke of Wellington.The body is comprised entirely from oak and lavishly carved throughout. The pediment of the barometer is peaked with five carved Royal ostrich feathers in emulation of those which graced Wellington’s Funeral Car. They surround a carved relief portrait medallion of Wellington himself with a leaf surround. The neck below is equally embellished with a Gothic stylised leaf surround which graduates out from the neck and with large scrollwork surmounting the Fahrenheit thermometer case to the centre. The leaf scroll continues to surround an eight-inch silvered and engraved barometer dial measuring 28 to 31 inches of barometric pressure and with weather indications on the inner circumference. A lavish central engraving with floral motifs provides a superb background for the intricately worked blue steel pointer and brass set hand on the dial, all of which is encased behind a brass s...