Y A REGENCY INLAID MAHOGANY MERCURY WHEEL BAROMETERW. SQUIRRELL, BILDESTON, CIRCA 1810The 8 inch circular silvered register engraved with a geometric rosette and signed W. SQUIRRELL, Bildeston to the centre within scale calibrated in barometric inches and with the ual weather observations to outer track, set behind glazed cavetto moulded cast brass bezel incorporating additional recording hand to the glass, the ebony and box edged case with open triangular pediment above inlaid rosette and arch-glazed Fahrenheit scale spirit tube thermometer flanked by further conch-shell decorated paterae to the balter shaped upright, the rounded base further inlaid with a fan rosette.97cm (38ins) high excluding finial, 25cm (10ins) wide.Provenance: The retail stock of Barometer World Meum, Merton Devon.William Squirrell is recorded in Banfield, Edwin BAROMETER MAKERS & RETAILERS 1660-1900 as a clock and watch maker working from Bildeston circa 1810-30.