This is an attractive sought after USA made Antique 120+ year old Sessions Clock Company Wind -Up 8-day clock.
Has an oak frame, glass door and brass pendulum.
Includes winding key.
At one time, the man I bought it from said this clock hung in the family grocery store in Indiana at the turn of the century.
It has been passed down 3 generations.
It is time it has a new home.
It is a rectangle box made in the Regulator clock style that was popular in the Edwardian Era, which was a period between 1901-1910.
Known as an Advertisement Store Clock.
It works and keeps excellent time.
Numerals are Arabic style numbers.
No chime.
This is a great piece to place in your store, business or would look beautiful in your home!
Specs:
Length: 40”
Width: 16”
Thickness: 5”
Manufacture: Sessions Clock Company in
Forestville, CT.
, USA
Manufacture Date: 1903-1910
History:
In 1902, William E Sessions and other family members purchased a controlling interest in the E.
N.
Welch Company, a clock manufacturer located in Forestville, Connecticut.
Sessions' father owned a foundry located in Bristol, Connecticut that produced cases for E.
N Welch Co.
On January 9, 1903, the company was reorganized as The Sessions Clock Company.
Within a few years the Sessions Clock Company was producing clock movements, cases, dials, artwork and castings for their line of mechanical clocks.
Between 1903 and 1933 Sessions produced 52 models of mechanical clocks, ranging from Advertisers, large and small clocks with logos of various businesses, to wall, or regulator clocks, and shelf or mantel clocks, designed for the home.
Many of the Session clocks from this period are prized by collectors.
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