Antique Clock Collecting: Swedish Clocks

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We're back in Europe again. This time in Sweden, looking at Swedish clocks. Some of you may be familiar from design magazines and things where you see Swedish tall case clocks. Often, very colorfully painted country clocks, with a round head and a shaped base. These are very common, and reproductions of them are being made now, as well as the old ones. The old ones tend to be a..a little bit primitive. Sometimes the wood has shrunken or come apart in ways where they can be kind of rickety, and as well the condition of the painting could...of the painting on the case could be an issue. So you want to be careful when you're looking at those that you're not buying either a reproduction, or one that may fall apart in your living room within the next couple of years. I have the...one I have illustrated here, however, is a wall clock. You can see it has a maker name from Stockholm on it. This is a large, gilded clock. Again, perhaps ormolu, perhaps, the....more type of gilding that was done on picture frames. This is a large wall clock. The significance of this clock, in addition to it being a fine example of a heavily carved, ornate Swedish wall clock, is that this clock belonged to Winslow Homer. The customer brought it to me to be repaired, and just mentioned in passing that this clock hung in Winslow Homer's studio up in Proudsneck, in Maine. I wasn't sure if that was just one of those stories you hear, but I did a little bit research and I found a photograph of Winslow Homer's studio up there in Maine, and, sure enough, this clock was hanging on the wall. So, in addition to many of us who like Swedish clocks, obviously Winslow Homer did, too.

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