Antique Art Nouveau H L Judd Cast Iron Sliding Bookrack Maxfield Parrish Student

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Antique Art Nouveau H L Judd Cast Iron Sliding Bookrack Maxfield Parrish Student:
$19.95

Antique Art Nouveau H L Judd Cast Iron Sliding Bookrack Maxfield Parrish Student. This has often been called the student reading or reader book rack and it is Judd model 9823. My last photo shows a scan of page 185 of an actual 1926 Judd catalog I own where this same bookrack is featured. Opens from 12\" to 22\" long and the ends are 5 1/4\" high and 6 1/4\" wide when upright. It folds down in the classic style and this bookrack is the larger version Judd made with 3 brass rails, smaller ones has 2 rails. Fine clean complete condition with no damage noted. The ends are cast iron with a brass finish and the metal has a fine aged patina. My 12 photos will give you a detailed appraisal. Guaranteed a genuine original H L Judd from the 1920 era.

H. L. Judd Company

Judd Manufacturing Company’s roots date back to 1833 as a harness manufacturer

in New Britain, Connecticut. The firm changed hands among family members and company names for a hundred years as it evolved into the J.H.Judd Co. of Wallingford, Connecticut.

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.L.Judd Company in Brooklyn, NY. In 1886, H.L.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 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.