Antique 1901 Ansonia Kirkwood Oak Kitchen or Gingerbread Clock Working with Key

THIS WONDERFUL WOODEN CLOCK DATES FROM THE EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY AND WAS MADE BY THE ANSONIA CLOCK CO., NEW YORK.  THIS CLOCK IS THE KIRKWOOD MODEL WHICH WAS BEING SOLD IN 1901 AS SEEN IN ANSONIA SALES CATALOQUES OF THAT TIME. HOWEVER THIS CLOCK COULD HAVE BEEN MANUFACTURED SEVERAL YEARS BEFORE OR AFTER THIS DATE. IT WAS ONE OF THREE CLOCKS FROM THEIR "K" ASSORTMENT. THE OTHER TWO MODELS WERE NAMED THE "KENSICO" AND THE "KENMORE".

These clocks were offered in Oak or "Dark stained" Maple Wood. The clock face had Roman numerals. It was called a Kitchen Clock or Gingerbread Clock. Gingerbread Clocks were decorated with intricately carved wood that resembled a gingerbread-style house. The term is derived from the tradition of making decorative gingerbread houses which began in Germany in the early 1800s. The usual base material is crisp gingerbread, hence the name. The broad application of the gingerbread style applied to almost anything included clocks. These clocks are also called Kitchen Clocks because having a well-managed household started in the kitchen. 
 
They originally sold for somewhere between $4.25 and $5.05. It would be roughly about $150 in 2020 when adjusted for inflation. It was a very popular and successful model for Ansonia.
 
MARKINGS:
ON CLOCKFACE: MANUFACTURED BY THE ANSONIA CLOCK COMPANY, NEW YORK, UNITED STATE OF AMERICA TRADEMARK A IN A DOUBLE INBEDDED SQUARE LINEART.
ON GONG BACK CIRCULAR MEDAL EMBOSSED PLATE: ANSONIA CLOCK CO
ON BRASS CLOCK MECHANISM: ANSONIA NEW YORK USA
 
SIZE:
32.5CM WIDE 57CM HIGH 13CM DEEP

CONDITION: SOME REPAIRS TO WOODEN FRAME WELL DONE AND NOT VISIBLE AT FIRST GLANCE. CLOCK IS WORKING. PENDULUM SWINGS AND IT KEEPS TIME CORRECTLY BUT SOMETIMES STOPS AFTER A WHILE. (WHEN LEVEL I HAD IT RUNNING FOR HALF A DAY STRAIGHT) IT STRIKES ON THE HOUR (NUMBER OF STRIKES FOR THE HOUR) AND HALF HOUR. IN GOOD ANTIQUE CONDITION BUT MIGHT NEED A MINOR SERVICE. IT HAS THE WINDING KEY.
 
ANSONIA CLOCK COMPANY (1850-1930):
In 1844, Anson Phelps formed the Ansonia Brass Co. in Connecticut to supply clocks.  The Ansonia Clock Co. was formed in 1850 as a subsidiary and in 1877 moved to a factory in New York.  This was followed by a second factory in Brooklyn in 1880.  In early 1914, Ansonia was producing 440 different models but by 1929 with the stock market crash, the company had folded and its equipment was sold off to a Russian Clock company in Moscow.
 
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