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Vintage Rococo Style Ansonia Clock

  Lot # 011
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Very Good
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12.5"H x 7 1/4"W x 4 3/4"D
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Closet #1
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Lot # 011
System ID # 1585841
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Beautiful Rococo Style Ansonia 8 Day Pendulum Chiming, Porcelain Face Mantel Clock. Clock is in working condition. Ansonia Trademark Stamp on White Face with Black Fleur De Lis Black Hands.  The Strike Will require adjustment as it will not stop chiming when the strike spring is wound. This was most likely originally a brass or gold gilt body with the cherub originally holding a palette and paint brush that is now missing and it it appears a former owner had previously painted it with gold paint.  

The Ansonia Clock Company’s roots lie in the Ansonia Brass Company, founded by Anson Greene Phelps in 1844. Phelps supplied brass to Connecticut clock manufacturers until 1851, when he joined forces with two powerful clockmakers, Theodore Terry and Franklin C. Andrews, to create a clockmaking company of his own. Terry and Andrews, who had a successful clockmaking business in Bristol, sold half of their business to Phelps in exchange for cheaper brass materials. Thus, the Ansonia Clock Company subsidiary was born. In July 1853, Ansonia showcased its clocks at the New York World’s Fair. In the 1870s, the Ansonia Clock Company separated from the Ansonia Brass Company and moved part of its production to New York. The Ansonia Clock Company experienced disaster in 1880 when its New York factory caught fire. In 1883, the Connecticut factory closed, and by the late 1880s, Ansonia had opened sales offices in New York, London, and Chicago. Production peaked 1914, when Ansonia was turning out 440 different models of clocks, but by 1920, that number had dropped to less than 140, and by 1927, it was under 50. In 1929, Ansonia was sold to Amtorg Trading Corporation, the Soviet Union’s U.S. trading company, but in 1969, the rights to the Ansonia name and trademarks were acquired by Ansonia Clock Co., Inc. of Lynnwood, Washington.