Swedish angel chimes
By alice | December 10, 2007
Did your family have some of these in the seventies? There wasn’t much else around in those days, so you would remember. They are so pretty and clever, and great for explaining to children all about the latent heat of vaporisation steam power whatever it is making those angels fly round. Rising hot air. The problem is if one of the pieces gets lost or you can’t get the right candles. Tea lights won’t work. Those are Hannukah candles (nice religiously diverse mix there) and they do work but it takes them a few minutes to get hot enough. The proper candles are a bit thicker, but not always easy to find.
The fact is, most of the winter festivals do have to do with light in some form or another, which is surely more than a coincidence. Even atheists enjoy celebrating this time of year, and that’s fine with me as long as they don’t join in with Christians in trying to make the big X into some kind of multi-denominational secular shindig, which it isn’t. Everyone should just do their stuff and leave the rest of us out of it, if you ask me; not so much of the emotional, etc.
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December 18th, 2007 at 7:55 pm
I’ve had fairly good luck finding the candles online by simply Googling “Swedish Angel Chimes” – most vendors who carry them also sell the candles. I typically buy them through Sweden’s Best.
In fact, I just found a website devoted to a collection of antiques – apparently pre-WWII they were primarily a German export, with the Swedes taking over after that. http://www.oldchristmaslights.com/candle_powered_chimes.htm
December 18th, 2007 at 10:44 pm
Thanks for that link Stacy, it’s really interesting and I didn’t come across it when I bought my chimes online.
December 8th, 2008 at 7:06 pm
For about 5 years I searching to find angel chimes. It would make me very happy is someone can tell me where I can find them and have them sent to The Neterland.
December 23rd, 2008 at 11:56 am
The ones we had from my childhood finally broke; the candle holders came off. The new ones I got from Sweden have a dull sound compared to the clear ring of the old bells, and the pressed metal center is nowhere near as sturdy as the shaft design of the old one; and the old one also has a hard metal bearing surface in the top part giving little resistance. In the new ones, the pin sits directly on the bent brass plate.
Sad to see even the Swedish version go down in quality. I understand it is to keep costs down because of competition from China.
January 28th, 2009 at 3:26 pm
We have been selling the original chime candles from Sweden for the past 30 years and we also have a good supply of the original Swedish Angel Chimes. sanctuaryongreen.com.
December 7th, 2009 at 9:59 am
The Ikea store always has them! And we had them in Minnesota in the 50’s already.
December 23rd, 2009 at 10:10 pm
Here is a website that is selling some. Thought it might help. I was hoping to find that they had some sort of name that would roll off the tongue better than, “Christmas Angel Candle Chimes Carousel”, but whatev. http://www.kaboodle.com/reviews/13-christmas-angel-candle-chimes-carousel–pre-order-2009 These things bring out the little kid in me.