Rare And Collectible Clocks : 1878 Value Guide - Price List

Sold on eBay October 27th, 2023

Mathurin Moreau 29” tall French museum clock 1800s Louis Boname Seloncourt

eBay For auction is a truly rare spectacular clock, nearly three feet tall by the famous artist, MATHURIN "Math" MOREAU. The clock movement is by the famous French clock maker: LOUIS BONAME (BESANÇON) SELONCOURT. You can see the stamp on the clock in one of the photographs. The dial protected by original glass door windows Moreau s signature appears in at least two places, once on each ladies' dresses (photos). I purchased this clock from a collector in Prague around 20 years ago and have owned it ever since. There is also a plate on the front “M. Moreau”. This clock is entitled "TRIOMPHE L'AMOUR". It is truly spectacular and stands over 29" tall and is very heavy. The detail work is exquisite. The back of this clock is more decorative and detailed than most clocks fronts. The glass and porcelain face are in excellent condition. The clock works and chimes a lovely bell sound. When I purchased the clock I was told it had been featured in a well-known palace in Germany. Unfortunately, I've since forgotten its name. There is a stamp on the back of the clock that reads as best as I can tell “Hors Concours” which I understand to be an expression from the late 19th century meaning “unrivaled ” This museum caliber clock will be the centerpiece of any home, whether your home is the Trump Tower or a more humble abode. The clock is in excellent condition for a clock that is well over a hundred years old and never restored. A true collectors piece. The Moreau family sculptor dynasty begins with Jean Baptiste Moreau, who was born in Dijon, France at the end of the 18th century. Jean Baptiste had three sons who followed in his footsteps, they were Auguste, Mathurin and Hyppolyte François The legacy continued with Auguste’s sons, Louis Auguste and Hyppolyte Francois. Members of the Moreau family often studied at the famous École des Beaux-Arts in Paris.Mathurin received many awards and specialized more in large statues - like you find in a town square, and his work followed the academic style. Many of Mathurin’s sculptures can be found around Paris, including L’Océanie, which is located in the Musée d’Orsay courtyard. Mathurin also won first place at the Paris World Fair in 1855 for his Fontaine de Tourny, which is now located in Quebec.Mathurin Moreau was born at Côte-d’Or on November the 18th, 1822, the son of Jean Baptiste Moreau, who was also famous sculptor in Paris. Mathurin Moreau studied at the École des Beaux Arts from 1841 where he was a pupil of Ramey and Dumont. He won awards at the Paris Salon. In 1885 his achievement was recognized by his becoming an Officer of the Legion d’Honneur. In 1897, Mathurian received the medal of honor for the Monument of Joigneaux. Its interesting to note that Auguste Rodin, also a sculptor in Paris at this time (born in 1840 and died in 1917) never received any such awards during his lifetime. In fact, it wasn’t until the 50th anniversary of Rodin’s death, in 1967, that he was finally awarded with the public tribute to Preiss. Mathurian died five years before Rodin. Mathurian Moreau sculpted many famous public statues in bronze around Paris and Europe, including L'Océanie at the Musee D’Orsay, La Chapelle Montmartre Parmentier in Cologne, the Sénat et jardin du Luxembourg, and a larger than life size figure of Marguerite d’Anjou. The two fountains of the Tourny place in Bordeaux (1857) were decorated with four Moreau sculptures. One of them is on display at Clemenceau place with Soulac-on-Sea. Mathurin’s son, Louis Auguste Moreau also became a successful sculptor. Other famous works of Mathurin Moreau are the Elegy, the Fairy with the flowers, the Ropemaking machine, Prima Vera and the Monument of Joigneaux, for which he received the medal of honor. Mathurin Moreau becomes mayor of the XIXème district of Paris. After its death a street in the City of Paris was named after him (Rue de Mathurin Moreau). He was made mayor of the XIXe arrondissement, Paris, and in 1912 had a street named in his honor. His other works include. · Cologne, limestone, 1865, façade de la gare du Nord · Nymphe fluviale, the Place du The tre Français Paris (1874) · L'Océanie, from the Exposition Universelle (1878),Musée d'Orsay courtyard · Zenobe Gramme, bronze, Musée des Arts et Métiers courtyard, Paris · Monument de Joigneaux, for which he received the medal of honor, Salon of 1897 · Tomb of Zenobe Gramme, Père Lachaise Cemetery, Paris, circa 1901 · Lord Strathcona Fountain, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, unveiled 1 July 1909 SOLD AS IS. YOU ARE ENTERING A BINDING CONTRACT TO PURCHASE BY PLACING A BID SO DO SO ONLY IF YOU ARE A SERIOUS BUYER. THANK YOU. (Condition: Pre-Owned)

Sold on eBay Nov 22, 2021

Antique 19C.â??MEDAL AWARDEDâ?? Ansonia Iron Mantle Clock PARIS FRANCE EXPO 1878

Sold on eBay Nov 20, 2022

Gebruder Resch, Double Weight, Vienna Wall Regulator, signed & numbered, 1878

Sold on eBay July 27th, 2024

Antique Souther Calendar Clock Co Fashion 1878 Calendar Clock, Great Example

Sold on eBay September 18th, 2023

Antique 1850's Waterbury Bronze/Metal Mantle / Floor Clock

Antique c19th Century Art Nouveau Style Waterbury Clock Co., Bronze Metal Cast Iron Shelf mantle Clock. This is a very large ornate clock. It is complete with pendulum but is missing key! This clock has a wood removable backing which gives access to the workings of the clock.The front face of clock is in roman numerials.The face has wear conducive to use and age. The bottom glass window opens and is where the pendulum shows and also shows Waterbury Clock Company Paper Listing. Sold As Is! Excellent item! COMPLETE! MEASURES: 19 1/2" x 14 1/2" x 4". PLEASE WAIT FOR INVOICE HISTORY: In 1854, Waterbury, Connecticut based brass manufacturer Benedict & Burnham created Waterbury Clock Company to manufacture clocks using brass wheels and gears. Waterbury Clock Company was legally incorporated on March 27, 1857, as an independent business with $60,000 in capital.The American clock industry, with scores of companies located in Connecticut's Naugatuck Valley, was producing millions of clocks, earning the region the nickname, "Switzerland of America". The Waterbury Clock Company was one of the largest producers for both domestic sales and export, primarily to Europe. Today its successor, Timex Group USA, Inc. is the only remaining watch company in the region. Originally, the company produced clocks as less expensive alternatives to the high-end European counterparts of the time. In 1887 the company began experimenting with its product line, leading to the creation of the large Jumbo pocket watch, invented by Archibald Bannatyne and named after the famous P. T. Barnum elephant. The Jumbo was put on the market in New York City on a trial basis, catching the attention of Robert H. Ingersoll, a salesman and eventual marketing pioneer. During the turn of the century, Waterbury Clock Company produced millions of pocket watches for the newly created partnership of Robert and his brother Charles, Robert H. Ingersoll & Bro., under their own brand name. In 1896, Ingersoll introduced the Ingersoll Yankee, a dollar pocket watch supplied by Waterbury Clock Company. These watches gained such great popularity that they became known as "the watch that made the dollar famous."In 1877, a new prototype was introduced to Benedict and Burnham for an inexpensive pocket watch made of 58 parts, mostly made of punched sheet brass. They immediately set aside an unused portion of their machine shop and began producing the Long Wind at a rate of 200 per day by 1878. The department quickly outgrew its space in the plant, so with a capital of $400,000 Waterbury Clock's sister company Waterbury Watch Company was incorporated by Benedict & Burnham in 1880 to manufacture and sell inexpensive watches and other timepieces. Waterbury Watch started out very successfully in its early days, employing hundreds of women for their "slender fingers" and "delicate manipulation," having become the largest volume producer of watches in the world by 1888.Due to poor sales techniques, where jobbers and salesmen gave away much of the Waterbury Watch products as loss leaders with little regard to the company's future, thereby cheapening the products' perceived value, Waterbury Watch quickly fell into bankruptcy. In a last attempt to salvage the company, Waterbury Watch began to produce higher-end watch models which only created more demand on a workforce unable to keep up with the complexity of the new watches using several hundred parts. The company was finally reorganized as the New England Watch Company in 1898 as its London sales office was placed into liquidation. The company continued to focus on high-priced watch models and eventually fell into receivership, discontinuing business in July 1912. Robert H. Ingersoll & Bro. bought the Waterbury plant and began manufacturing Ingersoll Watches there in 1914. With the American entry into World War I there were new demands for timepiece design. Artillery gunners needed an easy way to calculate and read time while still being able to work the guns. The Waterbury Clock Company met this need by modifying the small Ingersoll ladies' Midget pocket watch to become military-issue wristwatches — lugs were added for a canvas strap, the crown was repositioned to 3 o'clock, hands and numbers were made luminescent for nighttime readability, thus making one of the first wrist watches. In 1922, Waterbury Clock Company purchased the Robert H. Ingersoll & Bro. company for $1,500,000, which had gone bankrupt the previous year due to the post-war recession, thereby inheriting all of Ingersoll's and Waterbury Watch's assets and facilities. Unable to deliver on Ingersoll's guarantee of quality in Europe due to the Great Depression, Waterbury Clock sold the London-based Ingersoll, Ltd. to its Board of Directors in 1930, making it a wholly British-owned enterprise. The "powerful Ingersoll brand name" was continued in the United States by Waterbury Clock into the 1950s. No longer part of Waterbury Clock Company, Ingersoll Ltd. continued to produce the Ingersoll watch brand independently for the European and other international markets. Following the Great Depression and a period of hardship for the company, Waterbury Clock Company regained its identity in the consumer market. In 1930, a license agreement was reached with Walt Disney, resulting in the production of the famous Mickey Mouse watches and clocks under the Ingersoll brand name. The new Mickey Mouse timepieces were introduced to the public at the Chicago World's Fair in June 1933 and quickly became the company's first million-dollar line, saving it from financial disaster. In 1940, Thomas Olsen (owner and operator of Fred. Olsen Shipping Co.) and Joakim Lehmkuhl fled Norway with their families because of the Nazi invasion Eventually they came to the United States seeking investments to assist in the war effort. In 1941, Olsen and Lehmkuhl purchased controlling interest in Waterbury Clock Company, with Thomas Olsen becoming Chairman. Though the company had fallen on hard times during the Great Depression it still had the manufacturing capability to make large numbers of timing devices. Mr. Lehmkuhl, who had studied business and engineering at Harvard and MIT, was appointed President by Olsen and, under his direction, the company became the largest producer of fuse timers for precision defense products in the United States. A new concrete plant was built in nearby Middlebury, Connecticut in 88 days in 1942 for the high-volume production of precision timers. In August 1943, the Army-Navy "E" Award for excellence was awarded by the United States Under-Secretary of War to Waterbury Clock Company for the "Anglo-American fuse". As a result of this success shareholders in the following December voted to rename the company to United States Time Corporation.

Sold on eBay January 13th, 2024

1878 Vintage Antique seth thomas Sons & Co Hunting figural ,strikes clock,

Sold on eBay Dec, 13th 2019

Antique German Lenzkirch Vienna regulator wall clock 1878

Sold on eBay May, 25th 2019

Antique F Kroeber Rotary Noiseless Mantle Clock 1878 RARE

Sold on eBay Aug 07, 2022

1878 Lenzkirch wall clock number 466743,24 this clock runs & keeps good time

Sold on eBay April 1st, 2024

Antique Parrot Freres French Gilt Bronze Cathedral Style Clock & Two Candelabras

Sold on eBay October 13th, 2023

Antique Ansonia Mirror Mirrored Wall Mount Clock Hanger Swinging Sterling 1878

Sold on eBay Sep, 21st 2020

Rare French Swinger “Guilmet” Mystery Clock 1878

Sold on eBay Jun, 24th 2020

1878 Welch Spring & Co Round Top Regulator No. 4 Double Dial Calendar Wall Clock

Sold on eBay Jun 14, 2021

Marksman's Prize - Black Forest Mantel Cuckoo Clock 1878

Sold on eBay Dec, 30th 2019

Antique rare KPM Berlin clock mantel clock Lenzkirch Prussia 1887 pendulum

Sold on eBay Dec 05, 2022

Seth Thomas Southern Calendar Clock â??Fashion No.3â?,ca. 1878 Running Reduced !!!

Sold on eBay April 8th, 2025

Rare Seth Thomas Saint Paul , City Series 8-Day Walnut Mantel Clock Works Great

Sold on eBay April 14th, 2024

Antique ANSONIA MANTLE CLOCK Pale Pink Floral PECONIC Porcelain Case. 1882 Works

Sold on eBay Jul, 3rd 2020

Gustav Becker Vienna Regulator Wall Clock Running 2 Weight Driven 1878 Runs

Sold on eBay Dec 17, 2021

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Mathurin Moreau 29” tall French museum clock 1800s Louis Boname Seloncourt

Antique 19C.â??MEDAL AWARDEDâ?? Ansonia Iron Mantle Clock PARIS FRANCE EXPO 1878

Gebruder Resch, Double Weight, Vienna Wall Regulator, signed & numbered, 1878

Antique Souther Calendar Clock Co Fashion 1878 Calendar Clock, Great Example

Antique 1850's Waterbury Bronze/Metal Mantle / Floor Clock

1878 Vintage Antique seth thomas Sons & Co Hunting figural ,strikes clock,

Antique German Lenzkirch Vienna regulator wall clock 1878

Antique F Kroeber Rotary Noiseless Mantle Clock 1878 RARE

1878 Lenzkirch wall clock number 466743,24 this clock runs & keeps good time

Antique Parrot Freres French Gilt Bronze Cathedral Style Clock & Two Candelabras

Antique Ansonia Mirror Mirrored Wall Mount Clock Hanger Swinging Sterling 1878

Rare French Swinger “Guilmet” Mystery Clock 1878

1878 Welch Spring & Co Round Top Regulator No. 4 Double Dial Calendar Wall Clock

Marksman's Prize - Black Forest Mantel Cuckoo Clock 1878

Antique rare KPM Berlin clock mantel clock Lenzkirch Prussia 1887 pendulum

Seth Thomas Southern Calendar Clock â??Fashion No.3â?,ca. 1878 Running Reduced !!!

Rare Seth Thomas Saint Paul , City Series 8-Day Walnut Mantel Clock Works Great

Antique ANSONIA MANTLE CLOCK Pale Pink Floral PECONIC Porcelain Case. 1882 Works

Gustav Becker Vienna Regulator Wall Clock Running 2 Weight Driven 1878 Runs

Gustav Becker Vienna Regulator Wall Clock Running 2 Weight Driven 1878 Runs

Seth Thomas Southern Calendar Clock â??Fashion No.3â?,ca. 1878 Running Reduced !!!