Porcelain clocks have cases made of glazed ceramic. While the Royal Bonn Company of Germany made many of these colorful hand-painted cases, the Ansonia Clock Company made most of the works. Ansonia Royal Bonn porcelain shelf clock w/open escapement, porcelain dial, eight-day time & strike, 13 1/2 x 15″ h. $1,400.
“Mission-style” refers to a plain design featuring oak in straight, sturdy lines. The style, also found in furniture, was popular from about 1900 to 1925. Unknown maker, oak mission wall clock, exposed pendulum, 13 x 26″ h. $250.
Prior to 1831, Elisha Niles Welch (1809-1887) was in business with his father, George, who operated an iron foundry in Bristol. The foundry made weights and bells for clocks. When Elisha Welch formed a partnership with Thomas Barnes Jr., they named the company Barnes &Welch. The firm manufactured wooden-movement shelf clocks and was involved in […]
Advertising clocks display promotional information on their cases, dials, or tablets. Two early U.S advertising clock companies began manufacturing these wall clocks in the late 1800s. The first was the Sidney Advertiser Company of Sidney, New York; the second was the Baird Company of Plattsburgh, New York. Sidney featured a clock with advertising messages placed […]
In the mid-iSoos, manufacturers began decorating clock cases with mother-of-pearl (pieces of the iridescent inner layer of certain mollusk shells) to create an Oriental look. The colorful pearly fragments were embedded in a layer of papier mache, a mixture of mashed paper and glue. Seth Thomas Plymouth Hollow cottage clock w/mother-of-pearl decorated case, eight-daytime & […]
Although the Greeks developed a water-operated alarm clock wound 250 B.C, the first mechanical alarm clock was not invented until 1787, when Levi Hutchins of Concord, New Hampshire, made a crude model. Because the alarm could only be set to ring at 4 AM., however, it was of little practical use. In 1876, nearly a […]
Ingrahm Beehive Shelf Clock
