BIEDERMEIER GRANDFATHER CLOCK

SWEDISH C. 1840

BIRCHWOOD

SIGNED: C EHREMBERG - ÖREBRO

CARL EHREMBERG (1796-1864). He served his apprenticeship and became a clockmaker in Söderköping in 1819. He moved to Nyköping in 1830 until 1839, when he moved to Örebro.

Ehremberg made a famous clock with an organ that was re-sold in 1970 in Stockholm. He made the Tower clock for the St Nicolai Church in Örebro in 1842. He specialised in grandfather clocks, wall clocks and silver pocket watches.

Literature: 'Clocks and Clockmakers of Sweden and Finland' (Urmakare och Klockor i Sverige & Finland), 'Neoclassicism In The North' by Håkan Groth

19" X 77" / 48 cm x 196 cm

Ref. no. HG 6935

This clock is in perfect working order