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Norm..that particular lady has clothes on and her hair is not flowing in the wind above her head. I found a website that had about 15 nude ladies with different poses and such but not qite the same..this little figurine is also only 3 1/2 inches tall, staggered/offset bolts on the base to allow installation in one position only..that is what makes me believe it is a radiator cap ornament. Appreciate you trying..still do not and may never really know its origins.

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Sorry Tim. I had lost where that picture was on the forum. I really wasn't searching the net for it. Found that hood ornament site on a link from a post David Maxwell made about the P15 in the barn. I can see now it is not the same ornament.

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Hey at least you were thinking about it...upon close inspection it is a bit detailed for its size..anatomically correct should I say. Its a novelty I guess..would fit in very well with the curio's and such from last weeks novelty and trinkets thread.

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Some hood ornaments are just hard to pin down. Years ago there were so many different types of custom ornaments, who knows which was really original. Ran into a guy who deals in hood ornaments only at a large swap meet several years ago. He had one ornament he was asking about $200 for. However, everyone who stopped at his booth, he would ask what it was for. Even he didn't know what it fit and he had the books.

I doubt that your's fits into the bicycle category with it's design. However, some of the custom ornaments were originally for bicycles and/or cars. Like the Superman hood ornament. Those can really get costly. Saw a Superman ornament go on ebay a couple of years ago for over $3,000.

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