Manufacturer
Ansonia Clock Company
Also recorded as: Ansonia
One of the largest American clock makers of the late 19th century, famous for novelty and mantel clocks.
Founded in 1851 by the industrialist Anson Greene Phelps, the company moved to Brooklyn in the late 1870s. It produced enormous numbers of mantel, wall, novelty and swinging-figure clocks. After financial decline its machinery was sold to the Soviet Union in 1929.
- Country
- United States
- City / centre
- Ansonia, Connecticut; Brooklyn, New York
- Founded
- 1851
- Status
- Defunct (machinery sold to the Soviet Union, 1929)
- Key people
- Anson Greene Phelps
Innovations & specialities
- Novelty and swinging-figure clocks
Works by Ansonia Clock Company in the catalogue
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Pocket Watches · 1890
Pocket watch by Ansonia Clock Company, Germany, 1890
German Clock Museum
Instruments · 1922-1939
Ansonia Sun-watch in original card case, with instruction leaflet, c.1922
Science Museum Group, London
Instruments · 1922-1939
Ansonia Sunwatch (pocket compass dial)
Science Museum Group, London
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