We now have for sale another stick barometer from the same stylistic family, made c.1840, at which time the firm was known as ‘Adie & Son’. Like the original, this example has an ultra-slim mahogany trunk, which does not widen at the top like most sticks but, unlike the first, it has a rounded rather than a square top. The exposed tube has a wooden sheath round it and an unusual lobed rectangular cistern cover.

It is an exceptionally elegant piece of domestic decoration.