1851 Great Exhibition: Official Catalogue: Class X.: Francis Augustus Pizzala
162. PIZZALA, FRANCIS AUGUSTUS, 19 Hatton Garden — Designer and Manufacturer.
Wheel barometer or weather glass, with rack-work motion, intended to supersede the use of ordinary glass weights. The case is carved in walnut, of novel design, representing the leaves, buds, blossoms, etc., of the lilac, larkspur, collomia, potato-bloom, Solomon's seal, and other plants. The deal-plate is engraved with a globe in the centre, surrounded by the signs of the zodiac.