Ansonia Mantle clock. Patented June eighteenth, 1882. Made in New York. Wind up clock, the turn key is stored inside the clock (see photos above). The face is five and a half inches in diameter, and the clock itself is twelve and a quarter inches tall and fourteen inches wide. It's in great condition.
In 1850 the Ansonia Clock Company was formed as a subsidiary of the Ansonia Brass Company by Phelps and two Bristol, Connecticut, clockmakers, Theodore Terry and Franklin C. Andrews. Terry & Andrews were the largest clock manufacturers in Bristol, with more than 50 employees using 58 tons of brass in the production of about 25,000 clocks in 1849. Phelps decided to get into the clockmaking business to expand the market for his brass, while Terry and Andrews got access to better quality brass at better prices. They had resultantly sold 50% of their business to Phelps, and moved the business to Ansonia.
