This clock, which dates to ca. 1867, is the first of its type that I have seen with a US C&B Co. label. Based on surviving examples of the U.S. C&B Co.’s product line in the literature and on the internet, at least nine different clock models have been seen. Clocks made by the company represented part of the inventory of Giles Brother & Co. in Chicago, which advertised 32 different styles of clocks, including large regulators and ornate clocks with statuary ornaments (none of which are known today with US C&B Co. labels). It seems likely that clocks from other makers were also sold at the Giles outlet.
Fancy blue label of the US C&B Co. printed by the Chicago Evening Journal. To the best of my knowledge, US C&B Co. labels always have gold print on blue paper. Interestingly enough, clocks with Chauncey Jerome labels in clocks made by the US C&B Co. have black print on plain paper (see, for example). These Jerome-labeled clocks were probably payment for Jerome’s services to the company. I assume that the blue labels were more expensive and were, therefore, only used on their own labeled clocks.
30-hr spring-driven movement, made by the US C&B Co. Unlike the movement in the Jerome steeple from Austin, IL, which has pinned plates, this one is held together with machine screws, which was probably a later evolution of the movement.
Rear view of the movement.
Stamp of Marshall Bros., watchmakers and jewelers of Minneapolis, MN, found on the back of the clock.
A little history of Marshall Bros. and the US C&B Co., attached to the back of the clock.