ANTIQUE POCKET BAROMETER COMPENDIUM. Retailed by A&NCSL in late 1880. For sale is a complete and functional gilt brass compensated barometer/altimeter signed A&NCSL (Army and Navy Cooperative Stores Ltd). 5 cm diameter and 2 cm thick. Passed plastic bag test, so functional. Has a rotating bezel with marker and adjustment screw at the back. 25-31 pressure scale and 0-6000 ft altitude. Good working order.
In the lid there is a circular thermometer mounted on bone with a removable compass at the centre; both working. The thermometer column is unbroken. Signed J.H.Steward, 66 Strand, London.
The compendium is mounted in a patched leather covered case that is complete and functional.
A&NCSL was formed in 1871 by a group of Army and Navy officers.
The compendium is photographed over an A&NCSL catalogue dated 1930.