Ebay auction, or local Syracuse auction?

[mart]

It will help if you just post the pics that Ipcress wants !! He is quite fluent in several languages and can translate as it should be !! Much is lost by getting one word or part of a word at a time !!

[bigwull]

Perhaps he won,t have to wait the 5 years that KC has been waiting...after she asked for the same in 2009.....

[edweather]

I posted the one on eBay that he asked for and then he said it wasn't clear enough asked for 2 photos.  A close up of the front and back of the bottom.  If I have time tomorrow I will take them.  Might take a couple of days to get them though.  I have it hanging in a protected place, and it's a bit of a production to haul it through the house with people around, to a place to take a decent photo.  Not sure what additional help it would be to translate a couple of French meteorological terms, but if it's pictures you want, I'll try and get them. Peace.  I was only translating a 'few' words to verify that it's French.

[Ipcress]

Thanks for the eBay vote.  Yeah, a little more control on my end.

When I get home tonight I will read everything I can on the thermometer.  Probably won't be until late though. In the eBay photo I see it says 'de malade' on the right side of 17C.  Malade translates to 'sick' in French.  Not sure what gets sick at 17C.  Will have to match it to the left side for a clue.

Chambre De Malade

They're significant temperatures. " Orangers " for the orange growing etc.

[edweather]

Yes, thanks.  Possibly an agricultural/fruit growers thermometer. 

Will do a little research for what fruit gets sick (or well) at 17C or 62.6F.

Will more pictures asap.  Ed

[bigwull]

seeing as its a French Thermometer...i,d have thought...grapes would be the obvious choice....y,know...French Plonk and all that....

[greenacres]

Well, thesy also use a lot of blood oranges.

[bigwull]

Well, thesy also use a lot of blood oranges.

Not to make Champagne ..they don,t.... ....what have i told you about those...G&T,s.....mothers ruin they are.....think of yer poor daughter..whom you sometimes get mistaken for.....

[greenacres]

 

[Ipcress]

Yes, thanks.  Possibly an agricultural/fruit growers thermometer. 

Will do a little research for what fruit gets sick (or well) at 17C or 62.6F.

Will more pictures asap.  Ed

No, it's not just for fruit !! 

Look at other French barometers from that period. They have similar temperatures marked for a variety of things.

[greenacres]

I think you scared Ed away!

[KC]

That is what I wanting to know.  My family has been Big in the orange industry.  I suspected it was to do with that...and would like to see the pics as well.  There are terms for being "sick" for the produce.

Although for generations that have been in the industry this would be a "neat" find...it wouldn't have alot of bearing on value for general purchasers.  Just the fact that it is French and old is the most valid point of sale.

[bigwull]

The mind boggles...its a broken thermometer....that may be contaminated with mercury....yet...yo u think because it is French and old....it has value....now had it been a 1921 Dom Perignon..that had been stored correctly...in a temperature controlled celler....then i,d agree with you...but this....nope.....

[edweather]

Here's the pics for the front and back of the bottom and for the mystery words.  The photos with Glace, Tempere, Chambre de Malade, and Orangers I didn't post.  The word on the left of the bottom looks like "Temperature" or something close, and the word on the right looks like it begins with an "S."  Thanks.  Ed 

[Ipcress]

I worked out Bains Ordinaires from the image, which means ordinary bath, then googled it with Chambres De Malades and found this.

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Thermometer_from_fr ance.jpg

which lists several important temperatures found on thermometers. So those rather rubbed words you've given a close up of are probably chaleur humaine, or human heat / temperature.