Ansonia pattern 1882 clock mantle - Royal Bonn Winnepeg green and floral porcelain clockwith pendulum and key - great decoration ***Weight:9# *** Measurements:9x5x12 tall *** $350 - 400The following treasure is from the living estate of Ailene & Buddy Ford; noted dealers and lifelong collectors of exceptional antique & vintage heirlooms. The Ford estate presents highly valuable items from a diverse group of genres, 95% + in excellent condition. This exquisite estate has something for every eclectic collector! xxxxxxxxxxx. The AEAA is exceptionally proud to to showcase this magnificent Royal Bonn / Ansonia porcelain cased dual wind shelf clock from ca. 1890-1898. The action is properly marked The Ansonia Clock Co., and the Franz Anton Mehlem dynamic Art Nouveau case is in the Winnipeg style. Our brilliant clock has a combined deep Cobalt over an Ivory ground, and is augmented with lovely spring flower transfers. Our incredible shelf clock casing is in the Louis XVI tradition, with tasteful gilding and a splendid spread fan crown. This treasure is the closed escapement dial with a fancy sculpted Ormolu bevel. It stands 9 x 5 x 12 inches tall, weighs 9#, has its pendulun & key, and is in excellent condition, with a little minor crazing to the face. xxxxxxxxxxx. The Franz Anton Mehlem history began when a Cologne lawyer named Von Recklinghausen took over the failing Poppelsdorf Faience Fabrique factory with his brother-in-laws Paul Joseph Mehlem, and Everhard Joseph Mehlem in 1836. After half a century of growth & change, by 1885, new buildings had been added and a lot of old technology was replaced as the factory received new pump stations and transmissions as well as modern machinery. The year 1887 saw the installation of new mills and shortly afterwards a new steam engine replaced the old machinery used to knead the clay. The product range of the business was changing drastically. The company now produced household, decorative, technical and sanitary items and also produced porcelain clock cases for the American Ansonia Clock Company during the latter part of the 19th century, and perhaps as late as 1905. xxxxxxxxxxx. The Ansonia Clock Company was one of the major 19th century American clock manufacturers. It produced millions of clocks in the period between 1850, its year of incorporation, and 1929, the year the company went into receivership. At age 31, Connecticut born Anson G. Phelps moved to New York and joined forces with another Connecticut trader, Elisha Peck. As the firm of Phelps & Peck they exported Southern cotton to England and imported metals to New York in return, becoming New Yorks largest metal importer of the time. After his partnership with Peck dissolved, he formed the firm of Phelps, Dodge & Co. with two of his son-in-laws. Phelps, Dodge and Co. remained a leading New York metals importer. Located in southeastern Connecticut’s Naugatuck River Valley on the east bank of the river, nine miles from New Haven, the factory produced rolled brass for industrial uses. The city of Ansonia was originally part of a larger area called Derby. When the city was incorporated in 1889 it was named Ansonia in honor of Anson Phelps.In 1850, The Ansonia Clock Company is formed as a subsidiary of the Ansonia Brass Company by Phelps and two Bristol, Connecticut clock-makers, Theodore Terry and Franklin C. Andrews, but Andrews leaves the business in 1851 selling all of his shares by 1852. In 1853, Ansonia exhibits their cast iron cased clocks at the New York World's Fair on July 4, and that same year Anson Phelps, at age 73, sells his interest in the Ansonia Clock Company to his son-in-law, James B. Stokes, and Phelps passes peacefully at his New York City home on November 30, 1853. After a devastating fire in 1854, destroying the Ansonia Clock Company factory, full-scale clock production resumed under the name of the newly incorporated Ansonia Brass & Copper Co. in 1869. The factory grew, and the earliest known price list under the Ansonia Brass & Copper Company name, was dated January 1, 1873, offering 45 models of clocks and timepieces and fourteen different movements. By 1879, a second Ansonia Clock factory is opened in Brooklyn, New York, but operated less than a full year as in 1880, misfortune struck again when the New York factory burns down. Undaunted, the New York factory is rebuilt on the same site in 1881. The new facility allowed Ansonia to close Connecticut in 1883, with all administrative and manufacturing operations are moved to New York. By this time Ansonia had sales offices in New York, Chicago and London. Expansion continued, and by 1886, more than 225 different clock models are being manufactured. After adding inexpensive, non-jeweled watches to their line in 1904, Ansonia produced an estimated 10 million of these by 1929. In 1914, more than 440 different clock models are now available, however the 1915 to 1920 period saw the debilitating effects of WW I & increased competition. By 1920, in an austerity move the number of clock models offered in Ansonia catalogs had dropped to 136, with their formerly popular black iron mantel clocks, china cased clocks and statue clocks all discontinued. Ansonia was forced to sell its five story Brooklyn warehouse in 1926, and by 1929, the Company goes into receivership a few months before the stock market crash. The machinery and dies were sold to Amtorg, an American trading organization acting as the principal importing and exporting agent for Soviet Russia.

XA - C34 - All clocks should be checked for function. Our condition is based upon internal examination, and case appearance. Excellent condition - general crazing to reverse, very little crazing to the obverse.