
Jon Baddeley
Specialist Consultant Collectors, Science & Marine
Sold for £2,040 inc. premium
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Provenance:
Totness Grammar School where Charles Babbage was a student, the pump was purchased at a car boot sale at the school in 2017. Sold with this lot is a letter of provenance and a print showing the air pump in the school laboratory.
Literature: Millburn, John R., 'Adams of Fleet Street – Instrument Makers to King George III' (Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2000)