Help with steeple clock ID?

[JeffG]

Good day!
Wondering if anyone could help me with IDing a maker for this movement and a timeframe. I'm betting that it was sold by the American Clock Co. as the address is visible on the label, but the "American" is not.
-Jeff

 

[Steven Thornberry]

The movement is a 30-hour New Haven. By the shape of the escape wheel bridge, it was made before 1870, which is about the time New Haven changed its escape wheel bridge to one with a tapered neck.

There were a couple of American Clock Companies, both in NYC. One was in business from 1850 to 1864; a second one was in business from 1865 - 1879. From what I have found, the earlier (company is often distinguished from the 1864-79 iteration by the words Depot No. 3 or Depot No. 4, Cortlandt Street, on their labels. The label on your clock carries the Depot No. 3 designation and thus would have been retailed by the 1850-64 American Clock Co.

New Haven made movements for Chauncey Jerome until his 1856 bankruptcy. The assets of the Jerome Manufacturing Co. were purchased by New Haven in 1857. New Haven used the movement in your clock for many years; it is even found in clocks with Chauncey Jerome labels. However, my own feeling is that your movement was made after the Jerome bankruptcy, thus sometime between 1857 and 1864.

 

[PatH]

As an aside, I really like the nice, original Washington's Rock tablet on your clock!

 

[JeffG]

Thank you so much Mr Thornberry for that info.

As an aside, I really like the nice, original Washington's Rock tablet on your clock!

Thank you!
Here is a better picture. (front and rear)

 

[PatH]

Thanks for posting the picture of the back. It's always interesting to see how the colors were achieved with such broad strokes. I assume it was the only way they could produce these tablets in the quantity, and at the price, that they needed.