When readers seek information about their antique collectibles, Carolyn Patten finds expert advice about their value and history. Find the answers to mysteries about old and rare items. Courtesy of ...

DEAR HELAINE AND JOE: Please find photo enclosed of a clock that belonged to my grandmother. It is ceramic and it is marked "Ansonia Clock Co. New York" and it has an "A" inside a square inside a ...

Accompanied by 1989 Price Up-Date to Ansonia clocks: history, identification & price guide; laid in. https://siris-libraries.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?&profile=liball ...

Q: I would be interested in your evaluation of this Ansonia “Triumph” model shelf clock. I know it has been in the family since 1900. On the back it states “Prize Medal Awarded, Paris Exposition, 1878 ...

Cover title: Clocks : bronze figures & ornaments of every description. Includes Ansonia Clock Co.'s price list dated January, 1878. https://siris-libraries.si.edu ...

I have an advertising poster for B.T. Babbitt Best Soap and cannot find a similar one. Can you identify it, tell me what it is called and if it has any value. — E.K. Answer: Benjamin Talbot Babbitt ...

Appraisal: Ansonia Swinger Clocks, from Junk in the Trunk 4, Part 2. Watch Dean Armentrout's appraisal of Ansonia swinger clocks, in Junk in the Trunk 4, Part 2.

Welcome to Curbed Classics, a column in which writer Lisa Santoro traces the history of a classic New York City building. Have a building to nominate for a future installment? Please suggest it to the ...

Don’t always trust the date you find in a pottery mark. A well-known mark, often found on porcelain clock cases for Ansonia clocks, says “Royal Bonn, 1755” in a shield. But the maker was Franz Anton ...