A very good nickel plated pocket barometer and Singers Patent compass compendium retailed by Army & Navy Co-operative Society Ltd, c1880 - £950

A fine, scarce, circular cased two piece surveying pocket barometer, thermometer and compass compendium retailed by Newton & Co, London, no 1082, c1880 - £1580

A good silver compendium comprising pocket barometer, compass and thermometer in original fitted case, retailed by J.C. Cairns, Portsmouth, c1892 - £1800

A silvered brass and cast japanned aluminium desk weather forecaster by Negretti & Zambra, first quarter 20th century - £425

A very unusual antique French aneroid barometer clock by Eugene Bourdon and Felix Richard, Paris, No 539 c1882

A fine, substantial silver-cased pocket barometer by Negretti & Zambra, case by Mappin & Webb, retailed by Lennie, c1927 - £1500

A very handsome table thermometer with ivory register in carved ebony case by William Dixey, 241 Oxford Street, London, c1870

A rare oak cased The Life-Buoy marine barometer with thermometer by Dollond retailed by Woodman, Sunderland c1885 - £750

A fine first quality five glass lacquered brass medium oak cased drum barograph recorder with barometer by Negretti & Zambra No 455 c1918

A possibly unique, cased and finely executed cast brass miniature sectionalised model Pulsometer Steam Pump c1905 - £1250

A scarce mahogany-cased single glass Bourdon type aircraft/balloon height recorder by Jules Richard No 149865 c1935 - £1200

A scarce and very fine copper-cased mining aneroid barometer by John Davis & Son (Derby) Ltd c1930s - £650

A scarce and good five-glass lacquered brass mahogany cased barothermograph by Short & Mason, London No A 8366 c1935 - £1750

A rare and early monochrome The Royal Standard Aneroid marine barometer by Dollond, London, c1880 - £1200

A very scarce original issue Fishermans Aneroid Barometer by Negretti & Zambra No 1663, issued by the Royal National Life Boat Institution, c1880 - £550

A very scarce and impressive mahogany cased 12” dial Stormoguide Aneroid Barometer No 2550 by Short & Mason for Compton, Guildford c1935 - £1350

A rare cased brass 3½” diameter telescopic gimballed nautical compass by Francis Barker for Henry Hughes & Son London c1880

A very unusual and most ornate aneroid barometer for hall or drawing room with architecturally detailed dial retailed by William Moody Bell, Cheltenham c1880

A very rare mahogany cased brass pocket equinoctial compass by Francis Barker for Negretti & Zambra London c1870

After several months of planning, building and fitting out, the new Vavasseur Antiques test laboratory is up and running