Original Wooden \'American\' Mantle Clock,1850-60 from the New Haven Clock Company
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Original Wooden \'American\' Mantle Clock,1850-60 from the New Haven Clock Company:
$57.46
A Large and Striking Looking Wooden \'American\' Mantle Clock, 1850-60 from the New Haven Clock Company, distressed but an impressive looking elegant piece! has workings but no pendulam/key but is intact and looks good condition for restoration! ...face also good behind hinged gilt metal glass door, good! laquer distressed/marbled effect painting, good! gilding detail faded ...overall nice original condition! TLC needed
Large Lion mask cast metal handles to side, gilded in good condition
This is a beautiful original example of a 1850/60\'s clock made by a great American Clock Co. which sold its clocks in America and throughout Europe. A collectors piece! original, for restoration.
base: 410mm wide x 190mm deep x 290 high ..top canopy 350mm acrossits a substantial bulky sized piece so prefer pick up but happy to advise parcel post/courier?
\'American\' Mantle Clocks from the New Haven Clock Company
Incorporated February 7, 1853, the New Haven Clock Company was formed by clockmaker Hiram Camp and others to supply clock movements to the Jerome Manufacturing Company, then the largest clockmaking operation in the world. Three years later, the Jerome firm went bankrupt and in April of 1856 the New Haven Clock Company raised an additional $20,000 and purchased the Jerome operation.
By 1860, the firm employed 300 men and 15 women and was producing about 170,000 clocks a year. In 1866, the old Jerome factory was destroyed by fire, but a new brick factory was soon built which survives today with many additions. Their working force had increased to 460 men, 52 women and 88 children by 1880 and nearly a million dollars worth of clocks were produced that year. Non-jeweled pocket watches were added to the line that year and were offered until the 1950\'s.
New Haven had trade connections with Jerome & Company Ltd., an English sales firm which continued business independently after the bankruptcy of the Jerome Manufacturing Company in 1856. By the 1870\'s the firm was using the trademark *Jerome & Co.\" on some of their products and purchased the entire English operation in 1904.
Original Wooden \'American\' Mantle Clock,1850-60 from the New Haven Clock Company:
$57.46