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Aneroid Barometer, 'Brier Holme'


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      Date: 1904 -

Description: Aneroid barometer with carved wooden frame. From the 'Brier Holme.' The crew of the 'Brier Holme' left this barometer in Launceston to be repaired, intending to collect it when they returned. However, the barque was wrecked on its next voyage. It was lost in a raging storm off the isolated south west coast of Tasmania in 1904. Only one crew member survived.

Format: realia
Object: measuring instruments
Material: wood;  brass;  copper;  glass

Titles:
Aneroid Barometer, 'Brier Holme'

Subjects: barometersmeasuring instruments

Institution: George Town and District Historical Society Inc.

Object number: GTH_PS0054

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