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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;afantiques, post: 10275, member: 25&quot;]What&#039;s wrong with Georgian mercury barometers, the bottom seems to have dropped out of the auction market lately and I have absentmindedly picked up about half a dozen for less than $150 each that would have cost, in an auction room, about three times as much 10 years ago.</p><p><br /></p><p>I don&#039;t expect you see many British barometers on the US&nbsp; market, but they seem to have got both more common in the auction rooms and a lot cheaper here in recent years. The funny thing is that people retailing them are still asking prices similar to those some years ago.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m not all that bothered about selling any, as I like early barometers but I am puzzled by the disconnect between the low prices I can buy them at and the very high prices people are trying to retail them at.</p><p><br /></p><p>If I buy any more,&nbsp; they have to go in the shed, or at least, the number in the house must not increase without sniffs of disapproval.</p><p><br /></p><p>A Georgian one and a later Victorian example.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]2362[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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