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Antique Prestwich Fluid Gauge, English, Aeronautical, Scientific Instrument
Located in Hele, Devon, GB
This is an antique Prestwich fluid gauge. An English, cased aeronautical scientific instrument for
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Early 20th Century British Gauge Antique Scientific Instruments Gauge Scientific Instruments

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Glass

Antique Stick Barometer, Walnut, Scientific Instrument, Negretti & Zambra, 1900
Located in Hele, Devon, GB
This is an antique stick barometer. An English, walnut scientific instrument with thermometer by
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Late 19th Century British Gauge Antique Scientific Instruments Gauge Scientific Instruments

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Walnut

Antique Pluviometer Set, English, Copper, Meteorological, Rain Gauge, Victorian
Located in Hele, Devon, GB
This is an antique pluviometer set. An English, copper and glass meteorological rain gauge, dating
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Late 19th Century British Victorian Gauge Antique Scientific Instruments Gauge Scientific Instruments

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Copper

1920s Dental Paperweight Sculpture Glass Slab Temperature Gauge Thermometer
By Honeywell, S.T. Dupont
Located in Hyattsville, MD
Rare item from the L.D. Caulk Co. of Milford Delaware. New old stock, New in box. A true Relic from yesteryears building technics. A beautiful desktop sculptural object. Temp rises w...
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1920s American Industrial Gauge Antique Scientific Instruments Gauge Scientific Instruments

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Glass

Antique Schaeffer & Budenberg Stationary Steam Engine Model w Copper Boiler
Located in Dayton, OH
assembly of pressure gauges and other instruments began in Manchester. Arnold's son Fred Budenberg took
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Late 19th Century Industrial Gauge Antique Scientific Instruments Gauge Scientific Instruments

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Metal, Copper

Micro-Barograph by Short & Mason of London
By Short & Mason
Located in London, GB
, they made and sold barographs, aneroid barometers, compasses, aviation instruments such as altimeters
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Early 20th Century English Industrial Gauge Antique Scientific Instruments Gauge Scientific Instruments

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Metal

1920s Mahogany & Brass Antique Tool Carpentry Scribe
By Stanley
Located in Chula Vista, CA
Marking Gauge Vintage Wood Working Tool in Wood and Brass 8 Lx 5W x 2.25 H inches Original Antique
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1920s American Industrial Gauge Antique Scientific Instruments Gauge Scientific Instruments

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Brass

English Mahogany Steel Engraved Stick Barometer Signed F. Tarone, Circa 1780
Located in Hollywood, SC
barometric pressure gauge. Signed F. Tarone. Late 18th Century Barometer is in working condition.
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1780s English Sheraton Gauge Antique Scientific Instruments Gauge Scientific Instruments

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Steel

English Mahogany Banjo Barometer. Circa 1830
Located in Hollywood, SC
thermometer, ebonized reeded mirror, original dial, and glass encased barometer gauges. Early 19th Century.
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19th Century British Gauge Antique Scientific Instruments Gauge Scientific Instruments

Louis XVI Gilt-Wood Barometer & Thermometer, France c. 1780
Located in Atlanta, GA
condition, but retaining their original glass fronts, tubing, & painted gauges. The charts are elegantly
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1780s French Louis XVI Gauge Antique Scientific Instruments Gauge Scientific Instruments

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Glass, Giltwood

Antique Working English Cast Iron Cheese Press Thomas Corbett of Shrewsbury 1880
Located in Portland, OR
is an acorn shaped finial with the original brass pressure gauge below, reading in hundredweights
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1880s English Industrial Gauge Antique Scientific Instruments Gauge Scientific Instruments

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Iron

Antique French Giltwood Barometer Thermometer, Circa 1815
Located in Dallas, TX
Although constructed circa 1815 as a scientific instrument, this French giltwood barometer is a
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Early 19th Century French Empire Gauge Antique Scientific Instruments Gauge Scientific Instruments

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Glass, Wood, Giltwood

French 18th-19th Century Copper Overlaid Relief Medallion of Antoine Lavoisier
Located in Los Angeles, CA
-promoter and underplays his dependence on the instruments, experiments, and ideas of other chemists
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Early 1800s French Directoire Gauge Antique Scientific Instruments Gauge Scientific Instruments

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Copper

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Antique Austrian Silver and Enamel Cigarette Case
By Georg Adam Scheid
Located in Jesmond, Newcastle Upon Tyne
An exceptional, fine and impressive antique Austrian 800 standard silver and enamel cigarette case; an addition to our silver smoking related silverware collection. This exception...
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Early 1900s Austrian Other Gauge Antique Scientific Instruments Gauge Scientific Instruments

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Silver, Enamel

20th Century Italian Solid Silver Table SHIP Box embossed completely by hand
Located in VALENZA, IT
Rectangular solid silver 800°°/°°° table box. The box is embossed by hand with flowers, leaves and fruits. At the center of the hinged lid is embossed and engraved a sailing ship in ...
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1970s Italian Other Gauge Antique Scientific Instruments Gauge Scientific Instruments

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Silver

Antique Aluminum Teaching Dental Phantom Head Skull on Stand Gold Tooth 1920's
Located in Portland, OR
Antique aluminum dental phantom teaching head model with a gold tooth, 1920's. A wonderful fun sculptural dental phantom, the aluminum head with lower and upper jaw one of the upper ...
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1920s German Brutalist Gauge Antique Scientific Instruments Gauge Scientific Instruments

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Aluminum, Gold, Steel

Rocking Horse and Pull Toy, Antique, German, 1900s
Located in Nuernberg, DE
An amazing rocking horse made of wood covered in cow hide. Its saddle and reins and tack are all leather while the bit and stirrups are metal. The horse has inset glass eyes and rest...
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Early 20th Century German Gauge Antique Scientific Instruments Gauge Scientific Instruments

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Hide, Wood

Oil Painting 'Lysistrata' by Anthony Triano Signed and Dated, 1962
Located in New York, NY
'Lysistrata', signed and dated 1962 Oil on board Anthony Thomas Triano (1928–1997) Size: 17 3/4" high x 19 wide x 3 /4" deep. Triano was a painter, sculptor, illustrator and t...
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1960s American Mid-Century Modern Gauge Antique Scientific Instruments Gauge Scientific Instruments

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Paint

French Late 19th Century Barometer
By Selon Torricelli
Located in Stockbridge, GA
French late 19th century barometer.
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Late 19th Century French Empire Gauge Antique Scientific Instruments Gauge Scientific Instruments

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Bronze

French Late 19th Century Barometer
French Late 19th Century Barometer
No Reserve
H 39.5 in W 7 in D 2 in
American Neoclassical Cypress Figural Mantel " Dance Design " R. Wellford C 1790
By Wellford
Located in Hollywood, SC
Charleston / Philadelphia Cypress and White Pine Neoclassical mantel piece with a central carved gesso panel of dancing figural ladies, floral swags, floral urns, musical instruments...
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1790s American Neoclassical Gauge Antique Scientific Instruments Gauge Scientific Instruments

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Composition

Grand Tour Bronze Thermometer of the Luxor Obelisk, Paris
Located in Stamford, CT
A bronze cast of the Luxor Obelsik, one side a thermometer. This was a popular Grad Tour souvenir in the late 19th century. Mounted on a polished black slate base. 8.5 inches high b...
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Late 19th Century French Grand Tour Gauge Antique Scientific Instruments Gauge Scientific Instruments

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Bronze

Antique German Papier Mâché Roly Poly Clown Toy by Schoenhut
Located in London, GB
Schoenhut clown Antique German papier mâché roly poly clown toy by Schoenhut. Dated to the first quarter of the 20th century this item still works when pushed will move back and f...
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Early 20th Century German Late Victorian Gauge Antique Scientific Instruments Gauge Scientific Instruments

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Paper

Three 19th C. Hand Colored Engravings of London Architecture by T. Shepherd
By Thomas Hosmer Shepherd
Located in Alamo, CA
A set of three hand-colored engravings from "Metropolitan Improvements; or London in the Nineteenth Century", published in London, England in 1828. The scenes were drawn by Thomas Ho...
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1820s Realist Gauge Antique Scientific Instruments Gauge Scientific Instruments

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Engraving

Santa Toy Money Box Piggy Bank, Vintage Japan HTTC, Batterie Operated 1960s
Located in Nuernberg, DE
Gorgeous vintage sheet metal, plastic and fabric made money bank. Operated by switch or upon deposit of coins. Functions include - flashing eyes, head moves left-right, arms move up/...
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20th Century Japanese Gauge Antique Scientific Instruments Gauge Scientific Instruments

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Metal

Vintage Lehmann Mechanical Metal Toys with Colonial Theme
Located in Copenhagen, K
Very nice and funny looking Lehmann mechanical toys, from circa 1920, with colonial theme. Ostrich is sold.
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Early 20th Century German Gauge Antique Scientific Instruments Gauge Scientific Instruments

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Metal

Antique 1920s Enclosed Gramophone
Located in EDENSOR PARK, NSW
In working order, to operate you wind up the handle on the side, the lid can sit up and down the cupboard opens where the speaker is with two shelves to store your recorders, comes w...
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Early 20th Century Gauge Antique Scientific Instruments Gauge Scientific Instruments

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Oak

Antique 1920s Enclosed Gramophone
Antique 1920s Enclosed Gramophone
H 39.38 in W 20.87 in D 20.08 in
Inlaid Mahogany Barometer, with Silvered Dial, Signed Vecchio & Co
Located in London, GB
An early 19th century inlaid mahogany barometer, with 8" silvered dial, signed Vecchio & Co, Shaftsbury, and red alcohol thermometer. Thermometer scale in degrees Fahrenheit, and ...
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Early 19th Century English Gauge Antique Scientific Instruments Gauge Scientific Instruments

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Mahogany

Oak Cased Stick Barometer and Thermometer
Located in Cheshire, GB
Late 19th century oak cased stick barometer and thermometer by J Hicks of London with engraved scales contained in oak case having shaped and moulded pediment, and carved cistern cov...
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Late 19th Century British Gauge Antique Scientific Instruments Gauge Scientific Instruments

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Oak

Antique Austrian Cut Amber Glass Perfume Bottle with Gold-Leaf Detail Circa 1890
Located in New Orleans, LA
Antique Austrian cut amber glass perfume bottle with gold-leaf details, Circa 1890's.
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Late 19th Century Austrian Gauge Antique Scientific Instruments Gauge Scientific Instruments

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Glass

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Collection of Five Early Industrial Pressure Gauges
Located in Sheffield, MA
Collection of five early industrial pressure gauges, four manufactured by Ashcroft Manufacturing
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Early 20th Century American Gauge Antique Scientific Instruments Gauge Scientific Instruments

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Brass, Tin

Steam Age Kenotometer by Brady and Martin
By Brady & Martin Ltd. 1
Located in Bransby, GB
Kenotometer by Brady and Martin. A type of barometer or vacuum gauge used to measure very low
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1920s English Gauge Antique Scientific Instruments Gauge Scientific Instruments

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Brass

18th Century Louis XV, Water Gilt Barometer
Located in Atlanta, GA
leaves. The temperature gauge with the original paper scale & tubing are intact. Record
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18th Century and Earlier French Gauge Antique Scientific Instruments Gauge Scientific Instruments

Wilart, 35mm Cinema Camera, One Off Factory Prototype, Circa 1919. As Sculpture.
By Wilart Camera Company
Located in Dallas, TX
original gauges / dials, original correct hand crank and two complete original 400 foot film magazine
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Early 20th Century American Art Deco Gauge Antique Scientific Instruments Gauge Scientific Instruments

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Metal, Brass

Early 20th Century Brass Pressure Gauge
By Dewrance & Co. 1
Located in San Francisco, CA
Large, solid brass English pressure gauge by Dewrance and Co., London.
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Early 20th Century English Gauge Antique Scientific Instruments Gauge Scientific Instruments

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Brass

19th Century Hydrometer by Farrow and Jackson of London
Located in Debenham, Suffolk
by farrow and jackson of london.  This is a measuring instrument used for measuring the alcohol
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Late 19th Century English Victorian Gauge Antique Scientific Instruments Gauge Scientific Instruments

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Brass

Superb Example Of A 19th Century Brass And Mahogany Vacuum Pump
Located in Lincolnshire, GB
of the original accessories are even signed as well. These include a syphon gauge, a Magdeburg sphere
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Mid-19th Century English Gauge Antique Scientific Instruments Gauge Scientific Instruments

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Brass

English Mahogany Banjo Barometer J. Somalvico & Co. Circa 1810
Located in Hollywood, SC
, thermometer, barometric pressure gauge, original knob, and enclosed glass level. Paper label on back reading
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19th Century British Gauge Antique Scientific Instruments Gauge Scientific Instruments

Late 1800s Carved Black Forest Barometer from North-East France
Located in Dallas, TX
. Temperature gauge still contains mercury and reacts to temperature changes.
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1890s French Black Forest Gauge Antique Scientific Instruments Gauge Scientific Instruments

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Wood

Vintage Pocket Slide Rule, English, Brass, Scientific, Measuring, Instrument
Located in Hele, Devon, GB
This is a vintage pocket slide rule. An English, brass scientific measuring instrument, dating to
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Early 20th Century British Gauge Antique Scientific Instruments Gauge Scientific Instruments

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Brass

Vintage Tire Pressure Gauge
Located in Sagaponack, NY
A finely machined and warmly patinated vintage tire pressure gauge.
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1920s American Industrial Gauge Antique Scientific Instruments Gauge Scientific Instruments

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Steel

19th Century Cast Iron Balance Scale, circa 1800s
Located in San Francisco, CA
About A cast iron balance scale with two original weights, side gauge and attached weight. The
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19th Century American Industrial Gauge Antique Scientific Instruments Gauge Scientific Instruments

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Iron

Antique Marble and Brass Paris Boulangerie Scale, circa 1860
Located in Dallas, TX
showing the gauges. Wonderful as a decorative accessory, this antique French Boulangerie scale will be a
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Mid-19th Century French Napoleon III Gauge Antique Scientific Instruments Gauge Scientific Instruments

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Marble, Brass

1870s Vajen-Bader Smoke Protector, Super Rare!
By Vajen Bader Co.
Located in Peekskill, NY
historic interest is the beautiful nickel plated and signed air tank, valve and gauge on the helmets back
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Late 19th Century American Industrial Gauge Antique Scientific Instruments Gauge Scientific Instruments

Perambulator, Or Surveyor’s Wheel, A Waywiser
By Troughton & Simms London
Located in New York, NY
scientific instrument makers, Troughton London, was owned and managed by the Troughton family and established
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18th Century and Earlier Gauge Antique Scientific Instruments Gauge Scientific Instruments

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Brass

Slate and Copper Switch Board
Located in Aurora, OR
, which retain their original label plates, and monitoring gauges.
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Early 20th Century Industrial Gauge Antique Scientific Instruments Gauge Scientific Instruments

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Slate, Copper

Slate and Copper Switch Board
Slate and Copper Switch Board
H 60 in W 8 in D 30 in
8.5 Foot Tall 17th Century Portrait Oil Painting of Sir Christopher Wren
By Sir Peter Lely
Located in Gallatin, TN
well as an architect. He was a founder of the Royal Society (president 1680–82), and his scientific
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17th Century Academic Gauge Antique Scientific Instruments Gauge Scientific Instruments

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Canvas, Oil

Early 20th Century Air Compressor Gauge/Industrial Design
Located in Winnetka, IL
This air compressor gauge of orange enameled iron is a great example of American Industrial Design
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Early 20th Century American Industrial Gauge Antique Scientific Instruments Gauge Scientific Instruments

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Iron

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Gauge Antique Scientific Instruments Gauge Scientific Instruments For Sale on 1stDibs

At 1stDibs, there are several options of gauge antique scientific instruments gauge scientific instruments available for sale. The range of distinct gauge antique scientific instruments gauge scientific instruments — often made from metal, glass and wood — can elevate any home. Gauge antique scientific instruments gauge scientific instruments have been made for many years, and versions that date back to the 18th Century alongside those produced as recently as the 20th Century. Gauge antique scientific instruments gauge scientific instruments made by industrial designers — as well as those associated with Victorian — are very popular at 1stDibs. James Hicks and Short & Mason each produced beautiful gauge antique scientific instruments gauge scientific instruments that are worth considering.

Finding the Right scientific-instruments for You

Decorating with vintage, new and antique scientific instruments, as well as other authentic collectibles and curiosities that can be found on 1stDibs, presents an opportunity to create a unique, natural history museum-like atmosphere in your home that can provoke conversation as often as it pays tribute to how far we’ve come in understanding our world.

The Age of Discovery (or the Age of Exploration) refers to a period during the 15th to 18th centuries that saw Europeans taking to the high seas to explore, trade and conquer various regions of the world. What we know about geography, the advancement of sea vessels and the development of scientific instruments all broadened significantly during this time.

With every new finding about our world, scientists invented tools to measure and record. While many of these objects are now obsolete, they are essentially works of art and have a rich history. Scientific instruments of a bygone era represent how far science and technology have advanced.

If you’re interested in introducing antique scientific instruments and tools to your decor to add contrast or draw attention to otherwise unexplored corners of your living room or dining room, there are many options to consider as far as textures and colors go. Like any curious decorative object that draws attention to your home library or mantel, vintage scientific instruments will likely add spirit to any conversation that might take place over cocktails or dinner.

Create an intriguing focal point with Georgian scientific instruments, such as stick barometers with mahogany cases or lacquered brass telescopes. These items stem from an era named for the monarchies of the four King Georges, who ruled England in succession starting in 1714 (plus King William’s reign, which lasted until 1837). Just as there was beautiful jewelry produced during the period that today is coveted by collectors, there is much to be found in the collectibles and curiosities realm too.

Mid-century modern scientific instruments also capture a period of rapid progress, representing groundbreaking discoveries that defined the 20th century. Wouldn’t antique anatomical models of the 1950s pair well with your eye-catching abstract paintings, George Nelson clock or Florence Knoll sofa?

Whether you’re looking for a way to showcase your passion for chemistry or aviation or are making room in your foyer for a breathtaking industrial-style electronic time tower manufactured by Patek Philippe, 1stDibs offers a collection of vintage, new and antique scientific instruments that includes topographic tools, laboratory equipment and more.

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