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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ladybranch, post: 33784, member: 44&quot;]&gt;...is there any explanation for the large fluctuations in price?&lt;</p><p><br /></p><p>Wishful thinking. Warman&#039;s Antiques and Collectibles 2011 Price guide gives an estimated value of one of these in very good to excellent condition $258. Yours is no where near very good to excellent condition. The one in Warman&#039;s is 3 1/2&quot; X 9 1/2&quot;. Is yours the same size? Your picture isn&#039;t good for judging. When I first looked at it, I had no idea what it was. I didn&#039;t know what it was until I Googled Parlor Maid doorstop. The bottom half of the doorstop is too dark to see anything. From the pic I can&#039;t tell if she has legs. The tag covers up her dress, apron. There is no pic of the back or the bottom. </p><p><br /></p><p>Is yours marked &quot;Fish&quot; with the number 268? There are several of these parlor maids out there with all claiming to be Hubley. I don&#039;t know if reproductions of these are being made. China has been reproducing many notable antique doorstoppers for sometime now. Also &quot;John Wright bought the old Hubley Molds and began his reproductions around 1940. His factory is located in Wrightsville, PA, right next door to the old Wilton Products Factory. ... All his reproductions are easily distinguished by his unique markings. His markings are an embossed rectangle with engraving in that rectangle.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>The sig. of Fish is for the designer Anne Fish, &quot;an English cartoonist of the 1920s, [who] was commissioned by Hubley to design 6 different doorstops.&quot; </p><p><a href="http://www.prices4antiques.com/Doorstop-Hubley-Fish-Copyright-Parlor-Maid-9-inch-D9756672.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.prices4antiques.com/Doorstop-Hubley-Fish-Copyright-Parlor-Maid-9-inch-D9756672.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.prices4antiques.com/Doorstop-Hubley-Fish-Copyright-Parlor-Maid-9-inch-D9756672.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p>--- Susan[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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