I should mention that another company made the eight day brass clock previous to 1837, Erastus and Harvey Case and John Birge.

Their clocks were retailed mostly in the southern market.

They made perhaps four thousand a year.

The Ives Co., made about two thousand, but both went out of business in 1837, and it was thought that clock making was about done with in Conn.
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Wood clocks were good for time, but it was a slow job to properly make them, and difficult to procure wood just right for wheels and plates, and it took a whole year to season it.