P. Corti, Exeter a mahogany five-dial wheel barometer: the eight-inch round silvered dial engraved with typical barometer markings with sunburst decoration to the centre and having a blued steel hand and brass pointer, the mahogany case having a swan neck pediment and with a silvered hygrometer to the top, a thermometer set within the trunk above a convex 'Butler's' mirror and with the silvered level engraved with the name P. Corti, Exeter, height 98cms. * Biography Paul Corti is recorded as working at 5, Market Street, Exeter from circa 1830 until at least 1860. * Note. Reference Edwin Banfield, Barometer Makers & Retailers, Baros Books, 1991.