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Antique New Haven Model Tambour No. 56
mantel clock is in Excellent body condition &
great working condition. Tested for 2 hours.
When starting it up, the clock has to be on a
well balanced non-movement shelf. The
chime is real quite and doesn't make much
sound, but a tapping noise. I would say, the
clock needs to be taken to a antique clock
repair shop, to be oiled. Original maker label
on the bottom indicating Tambour No. 56 New
Haven Clock Col. New Haven Conn. USA. As
shown in picture above, this antique clock
comes with the original key.
History Of New Haven Clocks: New Haven Clock
Company, started up on Feb. 7th, 1853 by Hiram
Camp a clockmaker. Hiram and some other
clockmakers, supplied clock movements to the
Jerome Manufacturing Company, then the largest
clock making operation in the world. Three years
later the Jerome company went bankrupt, and was
soon bought out by the New Haven Clock Company.
By 1860, the New Haven Clock Company produced
170,000 clocks a year. In 1880, non-jeweled pocket
watches were added to the line, and were offered
until the 1950's. Hiram Camp founder & long time
president resigns from the company in September
1891. Walter C. Camp takes over, and modernizes
the watch company in 1904. Adding a line of
wristwatches in 1915. From 1943 through 1945, the
firm was involved in only manufacturing war
products. In 1946- The firm resumed in clock & watch
making, and was then known as the New Haven
Clock & Watch Company. 1956, the company
deteriorated and eventually operations ceased in
1960. The company was then auctioned off piece by
piece at a public auction on March 24, 1960.
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