Saturday 15 November 2014

A new bathroom

Recently I bought these wonderful bathroom items. I don´t know the brand neither the age. The seller got it as a Christmas present in 1968 so they are at least 46 years old.


The blue and grey parts are a kind of plastic material while the black parts are of rather heavy metal material. I think the design are very nice and I guess they might be English.  Someone out there who knows? The mirror and the plant are made by Lundby.

Sunday 2 November 2014

"Mora" clocks

There are clocks and there are clocks. Today I am going to write about grandfather clocks or "Mora klocka" which it is called in swedish.

The "Mora" clock in full size (1:1) was a rather large clock which was placed on the floor. The clockworks were of pendulum clock type and often manufactured in the town of Mora in the province of Dalecarlia in Sweden. Sometimes the body of the clock was painted with flowers or the special pattern called "kurbits" from Dalecarlia. The first known Mora clock is from the fifteenth century and later on in the eighteenth century an important production of these clocks developed in Dalecarlia. This kind of clock became very popular to have at home in the latter part of the eighteenth century and it gave the owner a certain cachet. From the start the clock's shape was straight, but in the beginning of the nineteenth century the clocks were influenced by the Rococo period and got a more curving shape. [source: Wikipedia]


The above "Mora" clocks are from my miniature world and have different ages and shapes. 


I start with the clock which I think is the oldest of the above pictured. I don't know its origin and it misses one of its pointers made out of a metal pin. It has the typical rococo shape and painted with some flowers.


This white clock has a blue clock face which is  pasted on the clock. The rococo-painting is rather simple and is similar to the rococo paintings which are found on early manufactured Lundby furniture. So maybe this clock was manufactured by them. My guess on age is the 1940s to 1950s. 



These two "Mora" clocks have the same shape on the body of the clock as the former one, but with different paintings which are probably not done by hand. The clock faces are green and red and are not showing the same time. These clocks can also have been manufactured by Lundby. 


This "Mora" clock is more tricky to decide the origin of. It has similar hand-painted rococo patterns as the first white clock above, but the shape is similar to the ones which came later one (see the next one presented). A little bit of a mystery. 


Here are the more younger clock compared to the above ones. This was manufactured by Lundby from the 1960s and onward. The clock face is now yellow. The clocks could sometimes show different times. 


These two "Mora" clocks are completely similar except the time on the clock faces. But if the clock faces were twisted before gluing them to the clocks they would show the same time.  


These two "Mora" clocks are also manufactured by Lundby but are of later dates.