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HI all,

This is my first post and I'm really excited to see what you all have to say! I found this Ansonia clock at my local antique store (quite by accident), bought it for a song or a little less and would like to know more about it. I've looked through photos of Ansonia clock styles, and can't find it. It's 16" tall, 11" wide and about 6" deep. It takes a 5.5 key. Help?

 

Perhaps the front was remade

 

I don't know clocks...but I'll help you pet that cat !!!!!

 

Hello and welcome to the board.
I'm going to ask a moderator to move this to the Antique Discussion forum. Not everyone will see it here in Introductions.

Be sure to check back as people come and go at different times of day.

@daveydempsey

 

Looks like a mid range Ansonia time and strike 8 day mantel or shelf clock from the first decades of the 20th C.
Looking for a specific model name is fairly futile as it is pretty meaningless to clock people who can see exactly what it is and do not shop for clocks by model, just maker, type, quality and condition.

It does have one interesting technical feature, a pendulum adjustment through the dial. A watch key on the small arbour in the hole by the 12 turns a gear on top of the pendulum assembly to raise and lower the pendulum for minor timing adjustment. This idea was invented by Brocot in France in the 1860s but is unusual in American clocks, indeed I do not recall having seen it but may have simply forgotten.
I suspect that when it strikes the movement sounds like a bag of loose parts rattling around but this is normal, working tolerances in most mass market US clocks are so large they will almost work as long as all the bits are in the same room.

 

Welcome to Antiquers Sara!

Love your kitty!

 

I love your Dala horse!

 

I was wondering what the other adjustment hole was for! It is much smaller than the winding key, so I wonder if this had a double-sided key or another key? Thank you!

 

It looks like I answered my own question! I think this is the type of key it needs. Unfortunately, my clock needs a replacement key, but I have to find a 5.5 size.

 

Thank you....I have a collection of at least 35!

 

LOL, I had NO IDEA what a Dala horse was!, till now

 

Welcome sara and I really like the clock.