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Message:: [QUOTE="afantiques, post: 60483, member: 25"]Could equally be an Ansonia model. They were cheaper versions of French late 19th C 4 glass clocks and most clockmakers made a version of the design. Some more elaborate than others, but as they were copying a French clock readily available to the richer patrons, there was no point in making American versions that would be more expensive than the finer French ones. It really makes no difference who made them, as a class they show more price variation between sale venues and design details and condition than they do between makers. The way to spot these at a glance, to distinguish them from the French made ones is that the larger, cruder movement meant the winding holes are in the chapter ring instead of inside it. Just about all US made imitations of French clocks show this distinguishing feature because they all shared the common, larger movements. They usually have imitation mercury compensated pendulums, not the real thing. If you unpack the clock from the attic, the maker may be named on the backplate.  There are books on American clocks that list all the different model names, I think I have a copy myself somewhere, but really this is purely academic.[/QUOTE]