Picked up this old clock today any info?

Hey everyone I picked this up at a Thrift shop today. I don't know much about it but I really dig it. Any info about it would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

 

It would be nice if you could edit this thread and click on full image for all pictures so we don't have to click on the wee thumbnails. TY

 

open the back and see if there are any markings on the movement.......

 

The back is a solid piece. I believe the front face would have to be removed

 

there are hinges ...looks like the whole thing pops out.........
but open the bottom and disengage the weight first...

or so i'd think !

 

Would think that it's a Swedish tall case clock.

 

My thoughts also.

 

The case is Gustavian in style.

 

Looks to be a later provincial French Morbier - looks to be a later one, circa 1900 spring wound.

 

agree with Drew. although not sure about the age. often called Comtoise without long case. Morbier was the main town of the Franche-Comté. the oval bottom window is certainly nice.
http://www.swiss-pendulum.com/vente-horloges/comtoise-morbier/

 

As to date, we'd need to see the movement.... escapement type to date the early through later 19th century examples that were weight driven (large movement) - the spring wound came in 1890ish and are smaller.... that dial looks later to me. Of course there was a lot of carry over in the production of these provincial clocks.

 

It is weight driven with pretty rough cast iron weights

 

I agree, a Swedish Tall Clock, so called Mora Clock. Mora is a town in Dalecarlia known for painted art on clocks and furniture, even walls. Here's another example:
https://www.chairish.com/product/17...ep5eJ4j3EyV3zXc9CLPcplR0RbEbEutBoCjI4QAvD_BwE
and history about them, another image:
https://www.designnewjersey.com/features/long-tall-swedish/

 

Almost all of the Mora clocks seem to not have the brass scene over the face, that tends to look more like french style? I should know i have been into clocks for 2 days now! Haha!

 

http://www.vieux-saint-aubin.fr/produit/1132427210

 

Thanks for the ID of the movement and case, @Fid! Movements and casings were often imports to Sweden. Am not surprised that the movement and case holding this clock are French/Bretonne. The handpainted florals are very typical of Scandinvian tall clocks, especially from Mora.The face on the featured clock made me think of my wall clock, below, a Swedish-made Pendyl (Swedish), with a German movement by Gustav Becker. It was a wedding present to my parents from my father's parents in 1938. Gustav Becker movements were exported to many countries so clocks with Gustav Becker movements are numerous. e*B shows lots of GB movement. That a French movement is fitted in a Mora clock is therefore not unusual.

 

it seems that there are some errors around that need clarifying in this case.
there is no difference between a Comtoise and a Morbier, the names are used interchangably.
the one showed as French/ Bretonne is only "Bretonne" by the place of the production of the wood-case. the works were produced on both sides of the Franco-Swiss border, mainly around Belfort and Montbéliard.
I very much doubt that Comtoise works were exported to such far away and unknown places as Sweden. it sounds more logic that the form of the cases was "imported" and then completed with Becker and other German works. Becker would only have been capable of producing accurate works in the 1860s and later.
I see a very small chance that the models and some works that would have been copied in Prussia when Prussia possessed land on both sides of the Franco-Swiss border, namely half of the canton of Neuchâtel and around Montbéliard that went under the German name Mümpelgard.

 

Thanks to everyone for all of the great information. In order to see the actual movement of the clock how would it come out? Does it just slide out of the front? The back, top and sides are all sealed up.

 

we definitely need more pics. but normally it should be a few screws only from underneath so you can slide it out towards the front when you took off the weights.