Apprehensive about Buying an Antique Barometer Online?
Vavasseur Antiques - Antique & Vintage Aneroid Barometers, Barographs & Other Scientific Instruments | October 10, 2017
Apprehensive about Buying an Antique Barometer Online?
This glorious Jules Richard Bourdon Barometer c1890 was the inspiration for our original logo! Buying an antique barometer or barograph online from an unknown company is understandably daunting, and can be a cause for concern. Set up in 2016, Vavasseur Antiques has become the preeminent specialist in the very finest antique aneroid barometers, barographs and other Victorian scientific instruments in...
Vavasseur Antiques is now on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook!
Vavasseur Antiques - Antique & Vintage Aneroid Barometers, Barographs & Other Scientific Instruments | October 8, 2017
Vavasseur Antiques is now on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook!
Find Vavasseur Antiques on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook… We now have an official Vavasseur Antiques Twitter feed – @VavasseurAnt, an Instagram page – vavasseur_antiques, and a Facebook page – @vavasseurantiques, where we post up images and details of new and/or interesting objects from our portfolio. If you have a moment, please do follow us!        
Weather Forecasting, the Negretti & Zambra Way!
Weather | September 16, 2017
Weather Forecasting, the Negretti & Zambra Way!
A number of years before the BBC started to broadcast shipping forecasts and weather reports in November 1922, Negretti & Zambra patented the ‘weather forecaster’ to allow both professionals and the man in the street to forecast the weather with more than 80% accuracy (the result of 10 years’ research). Negretti & Zambra’s patent –  No. 6276/15 – was applied…
Storm Aileen, 12-13 September 2017
Weather | September 13, 2017
Storm Aileen, 12-13 September 2017
After a period of very settled weather, Storm Aileen heralded the start of Autumn as she passed over last night, peaking at 2.41am, if the extremely strong gust that blew open one of the closed bedroom windows was anything to go by! Luckily window and glass survived the storm, as did the peacock whose usual roost is a tree at…