Glass and Mercury Antique Hydrometer in Original Wooden Box matches is in good condition

is in good condition

I have found the work of an NYC based artist named Sue Kutosh online

Nuanced and unique from every angle

A truly wonderful set

some framed

Glass and Mercury Antique Hydrometer in Original Wooden Box matches is in good conditionAt first I thought this antique Griebel Instrument Co. hydrometer was an old thermometer, until I noted that the numbers on the side run 0 to 6 rather than showing temperatures. Ive since learned that a hydrometer is used for measuring the relative density of liquids based on buoyancy: you pour liquid into a container, lower the hydrometer into it until it floats, and then the point at which the surface of the liquid touches the stem of the hydrometer