Antique Cast Iron Doorstop Naughty Puss Child Cat Judd 1271 with Original Paint. Measures 8 5/8″ tall and 4 1/4″ wide, weighs 3 pounds 14 ounces. One of the most desirable doorstops ever made from the classic early 1900’s era. No cracks or chips, has age appropriate wear, a nice aged patina – see my detailed photos. I have been collecting doorstops for decades and I have had many Judd doorstops and can guarantee this paint is exactly how Judd doorstops should look and is all original. The same model doorstop is found on page 195 of The Doorstop Encyclopedia by Smith as shown in my last photo. Judd around 1830 to make harness hames. , the firm began to make drapery, window and picture hardware. In 1862 Morton and sons Albert, Edward and Hubert, moved operations to New Haven, reorganizing as the Judd Manufacturing Company. Around 1875, Judd Manufacturing moved to the plants present location in Wallingford. At about the same time, the firm opened a branch in Brooklyn where upholsterer’s hardware was made. The Brooklyn branch was incorporated in 1884 as H. Judd and Company (with Hubert at the helm), and bought out Judd Manufacturing. In 1880, the company opened a wood turning mill to produce curtain poles in Chattanooga, Tennessee; in 1928, a factory for’artistic wrought iron drapery hardware and art metal goods’ was established in Los Angeles, California. Judd and Company and absorbed its manufacturing operations and approximately 600 workers; it was renamed the Stanley-Judd Company. Stanley-Judd Company drapery products remained strong through the 1970s but operations were shut down shortly thereafter. In 1989, the factory was redeveloped as the Judd Square Condominiums. The firm changed hands among family members and company names for a hundred years as it evolved into the J. In 1864, Albert, Edward and Hubert Judd moved the company to New Haven, Connecticut, then to its permanent location in Wallingford, Connecticut. A few years later, Hubert Judd struck out on his own to start the H. Judd Company in Brooklyn, NY. Judd took control of the Wallingford plant. In the early 1910s, they began to produce a decorative art metal line of fine-quality sand castings in iron, brass and bronze. Among these items were doorstops, bookends and book racks, which were produced between 1910 and the late 1930s. Judd identified their bookends with a 9000 series stock number. The prefix 0 was used in front of the 9000 series number on iron castings only when the same design was cast in both bronze and iron. The doorstops were identified with 4 series numbers starting with the numeral 1. The item “Antique Cast Iron Doorstop Naughty Puss Child Cat Judd 1271 with Original Paint” is in sale since Sunday, November 21, 2021. This item is in the category “Collectibles\Metalware\Other Collectible Metalware”. The seller is “spooknook” and is located in Weymouth, Massachusetts. This item can be shipped worldwide.
- Style: Antique
- Original/Reproduction: Original
- Type: Doorstops
- Object Type: Door Stop
