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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 pendulum & clock has
to be balanced. 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,
and pendulum. Clocks body is real wood.
History of New Haven Clocks:
Incorporated February 7, 1853, the New Haven Clock
Company was formed by clockmaker Hiram Camp and others
to supply clock movements to the Jerome Manufacturing
Company, then the largest clockmaking operation in the
world. Three years later, the Jerome firm went bankrupt
and in April of 1856 the New Haven Clock Company raised
an additional $20,000 and purchased the Jerome operation.
By 1860, the firm employed 300 men and 15 women and was
producing about 170,000 clocks a year. In 1866, the old
Jerome factory was destroyed by fire, but a new brick
factory was soon built which survives today with many
additions. Their working force had increased to 460 men, 52
women and 88 children by 1880 and nearly half a million
dollars worth of clocks were produced that year. Non
jeweled pocket watches were added to the line that year and
were offered until the 1950's.
New Haven had trade connections with Jerome & Co. Ltd.,
an English sales firm which continued business
independently after the bankruptcy of the Jerome
Manufacturing Company in 1856. By the 1870's the firm was
using the trademark "Jerome & Co." on some of their
products and purchased the entire English operation in
1904.
For years the Directors of the New Haven operation had
drained the resources of the company with large dividends
and by 1890 they were in serious financial condition. Hiram
Camp (1811 1892), founder and long time president,
resigned as president in September, 1891 and his successor
Samuel A. Galpin struggled to keep the firm afloat. They
nearly went into bankruptcy in 1894 but raised enough
money to continue until March of 1897 when the firm was
reorganized.
In 1902 leadership of the firm passed to Walter C. Camp who
is better known as the "father of American football."
However, Camp modernized the watch-manufacturing
department in 1904, resulting in cheaper production costs,
and had wristwatches added to the line in 1915. Camp was
succeeded in 1923 by Edwin P. Root.
When Richard H. Whitehead succeeded Root as president of
the firm in February, 1929, it was again in financial trouble.
This worsened when the Great Depression hit in November
of that year but Whitehead's able leadership kept the firm
operating with growing profitability through the time of
World War II. From 1943 through 1945, the firm was involved
almost totally in manufacturing war products.
In March of 1946, the firm resumed clock and watch
manufacture and was reorganized as the New Haven Clock
and Watch Company. That year it fell into the control of
foreign inventors involved with Swiss watchmaking
interests. Whitehead resigned as president and thereafter
the firm deteriorated steadily. In 1956, it was reorganized
under Chapter X of the bankruptcy act and in 1960 the
operation ceased and the clock manufacturing
facilities were sold on March 22 24, 1960 at public
auction and by private negotiation.
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