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Archive of Catalogues for H. L. Judd Co.

Judd, H. L., Co. This is an archive consisting of 14 catalogues, one design book and a group of 40 heliotype and other images of company products. Many of the items bear the stamped signature of A. M. Woodworth who would appear to have been either a salesman or designer for the company. The earliest items are an 1883 Special List and an 1891 Descriptive Catalogue of . Ornamental Hardware (192 pp., lacking roughly 32 pages). The latest is Suggestions for Beautiful Window Draping (28 pages, dated 1930). The design book is undated but appears to be from around 1910 and contains illustrations, mostly photographic with many in color, of lamps, mouldings and other design elements. Other catalogues offer anvil, curtain rods, brass beds, metal novelties, brass cornices, brass and onyx tables, stationery hardware and match safes, art metal goods, vacuum cleaners and metal furniture. History of New Haven County, Connecticut, Volume 1 (p. 357): "The H. L. Judd Company was a manufacturer of stationers’ and ornamental hardware. It was incorporated in 1869 as the Judd Manufacturing Company, and was renamed in 1887. The original business was established in Brooklyn, NY with a branch factory located in Wallingford, Conn.” At one time, the company also had a factory in Chattanooga, Tennessee. An astounding archive documenting the production of this metalwork company over 40 years as compiled by a longtime employee. It is not possible to describe the extremely wide variety of metal products offered in these catalogues. They range from simple hardware and curtain rods to ornate lamps, mechanical banks, picture frames, ornamental swords, ornate inkstands and bookends and much more.
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