ClockPrices.ComAnsonia Royal Bonn La Seine China Clock
Description
Ansonia Royal Bonn La Seine China Clock: Open escapement.
Sells as is, where is.
- Estimate:
- [restrict paid=ture]$300 – $500[/restrict]
- Auctioneer:
- [restrict paid=ture]Tom Harris Auctions[/restrict]
- Sold Price:
- [restrict paid=ture]$425[/restrict]
- Sold Date:
- [restrict paid=ture]Oct 04, 2014[/restrict]
Royal Bonn La Seine china case clock, 12″ high, do
Description
Royal Bonn La Seine china case clock, 12″ high, door off hinge, all parts there, paper dial peeling, Ansonia movement
- Estimate:
- [restrict paid=ture]$50 – $100[/restrict]
- Auctioneer:
- [restrict paid=ture]Central Street Antiques and Auction[/restrict]
- Sold Price:
- [restrict paid=ture]$140[/restrict]
- Sold Date:
- [restrict paid=ture]Aug 28, 2012[/restrict]
1915 ROYAL BONN ANSONIA LA SEINE PORCELAIN SHELF CLOCK
Description
WE SHIP! The AEAA is very proud to present this gorgeous Ansonia Clock Co., Royal Bonn, porcelain shelf clock, entitled La Seine, ca 1915. Our example is a handsome light blue to sea green to emerald green ground with fine gilded and lemon yellow highlights. It has splendid spring flowers with La Seine impressed on the reverse, with the Franz Anton Mehlem Royal Bonn crest as well. FLASH: this is one of the very few Ansonia porcelain clocks we have ever seen with NO CRAZING to the case, plus this 8-day half hour gong strike treasure appears to run well and has a marvelous deep chime and a handsome marked full face. It weighs 8#, measures 8.5 x 5 x 11.75 inches tall, and is in excellent condition. This heirloom is from the living estate of Ailene & Buddy Ford, noted dealers and lifelong collectors of valuable antiques. xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.In 1850, The Ansonia Clock Company is formed as a subsidiary of the Ansonia Brass Company by Anson G. Phelps and two Bristol, Connecticut clockmakers, 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 Fairon 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 pecefully 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 tha 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.
Condition
XA- C38 – excellent condition
- Estimate:
- [restrict paid=ture]$425 – $475[/restrict]
- Auctioneer:
- [restrict paid=ture]Accurate Auctions[/restrict]
- Sold Price:
- [restrict paid=ture]$84[/restrict]
- Sold Date:
- [restrict paid=ture]Feb 20, 2016[/restrict]
GERMAN ROYAL BONN “LA SEINE” CASED ANSONIA MANTEL CLOCK
Description
GERMAN ROYAL BONN “LA SEINE” CASED ANSONIA MANTEL CLOCK, mauve with green shading and rose transfer decoration, molded case with cartouche pediment and blocked corners, paper clock dial, back with red stamp maker’s mark and “LA Seine”, with pendulum and key. Brass clockworks marked “ANSONIA CLOCK CO. / U.S.A. / NEW YORK”. Late 19th/early 20th century. 11 1/2″ H.
Provenance: From the collection of Charles and Gail Lohr, Broadway, VA.
Condition
Excellent running condition, moderate wear to dial.
- Estimate:
- [restrict paid=ture]$100 – $200[/restrict]
- Auctioneer:
- [restrict paid=ture]Jeffrey S. Evans & Associates[/restrict]
- Sold Price:
- [restrict paid=ture]$250[/restrict]
- Sold Date:
- [restrict paid=ture]Feb 22, 2014[/restrict]