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Trademarks and Trade Names of Antique Clocks
Using Trademarks and Trade Names to Identify Makers and Dates Made
Finding a name or trademark image on a clock may simplify the task of identifying the maker and the approximate date the clock was made.Then again, it may provide you with misleading information. For instance, an original paper label may have been taken from a clock (perhaps one in poor condition) and affixed inside another in an attempt to make the second clock seem more valuable or to lend an air of authenticity. Reproductions of old labels are also available for purchase from a number of sources. A reputable dealer will tell a buyer if a label is a reproduction. But the dealer himself may not know (or investigate too closely), and there are, of course, some sellers who deliberately attempt to mislead buyers.		Then again, a movement signed by one maker may have been placed in a case made by another - a practice usually termed a "marriage." A clock case made in one century might even have a movement made fifty or a hundred years later.
Company or Maker's Name and Location	Dates Used	Example of Trademark or Label
American Clock Co.	label c. 1850-60 >
Ansonia Clock Company Ansonia, Connecticut until 1879 Brooklyn, New York from 1879-1929	1851 — 1929 (factory rebuilt after fire of 1854) In 1929-30 Ansonia liquidated and its equipmentsold and moved to Russia.
Ansonia Brass & Copper Company Ansonia, Connecticut	1854 — 1878
Ansonia Clock Co., Inc. Lynnwood, Washington .	1969 — Ansonia Clock Co., Inc., acquired the rights to use the name and trademarks of the original company.
Badische Uhrenfabrik A G Furtwangen, Black Forest, Germany	1860-1918 (factory closed from 1918 to 1927) 1927-1945 (factory closed - reopened again ?)	trademark: crescent moon and a "B"
Gustav Becker
Clark, Gilbert & Company	(1841-1845)
Drocourt, Pierre (Father) Drocourt, Alfred (Son) c. 1820 - 1900+	trademark: image of a carriage clock flanked by "D" and "C"


Gilbert & Clark	1848-1851
William L. Gilbert and Company	1851-1866
Gilbert Manufacturing Co.	1866-1871 label c. 1866 >

William L. Gilbert Clock Co.	1871-1934 label c. 1885 > label c. 1885 > label c. 1890> label c. 1901>
Junghans
Muller & Kroeber apparently sometimes misprinted label showing "Fuller & Kroeber" 25 John Street New York, New York	c. 1868-1869
F. Kroeber F. Kroeber & Co. No. 8 Cortlandt St (or) No. 14 Cortlandt St. New York, New York	c. 1870-1887
F. Kroeber Clock Co. (incorporated 1887) 360 Broadway New York, New York	c. 1887 - 1899 (corporation goes bankrupt in 1899)
F. Kroeber F. Kroeber & Co. 14 Maiden Lane (or) 45 Maiden Lane New York, New York	c. 1899 - 1904
Lenzkirch	Stamped Trademark c. 1910>

Gebruders Resch ( Resch Brothers)
Standard Electric Time Company
Anton Schatz	Trademark c. 1950's >


Welch, Spring & Co (Elisha N. Welch and Solomon C. Spring)	c. 1868 - 1884



Junghans

Seth Thomas, c. 1865
Seth Thomas, c. 1870
Seikosha, c. 1910 Tokyo, Japan
Seth Thomas, c. 1880
Seth Thomas, c.1863
Seth Thomas c. 1816
.c. 1868-84

Seth Thomas c. 1870
c. 1950's



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