Time flies....

into 2013 and on and on and on.....❤

A year goes by so fast and so many things happen ❤

There are also changes in a life.....my dear father in law

 passed away and we had a beautiful memorial service 

at the beginning of June, when the spring was at full bloom.

His old family Mora clock, dated 1839 moved into our home 

and is now an important memory of GrandPa to our family. 

 The shape of these old clock cases are usually significative

 for different provinces in Sweden and very often the clock

 machinery was made separately by a fine artisan of watches.

 A trained eye can derive it's origin by the shape of the case.

You may also get some help from reading the signature

of the clock and the other one inside the case,

 hopefully the history tells us the rest.

Yes, we did start scraping off the white coat of paint to reach to the

 greyish/green layer of the original late Gustavian linseed oil with a razor

 blade. I soon realized it would take me an eternity which I don't have right 

now, so I rest that case until another time. Unfortunately many of these clocks 

have had white paint and some golden lines as it became à la mode in 1910.

What a big mistake!!

Happy 2013

 ❤