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GROUP OF TINTYPES AND A PHOTOGRAPH IN EMBOSSED CASES.

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles Start Price:50.00 USD Estimated At:100.00 - 150.00 USD
GROUP OF TINTYPES AND A PHOTOGRAPH IN EMBOSSED CASES.
The group is comprised of two tintypes in embossed leather cases (one partial), one depicting a young bearded man, the other an older man in black, each with tinted cheeks;  approx. 2 7/8in. x 2 3/8in. Condition: One tintype has dark spotting, the case with wear and old repair; the other tintype has spots of wear and surface scratches and is missing the cover portion, missing leather, with one side coming detached. Together with a paper photograph of an Edwardian woman wearing spectacles, in an embossed and gilt leather case; 3 5/8in. x 3 1/8in. Condition: Wear to case, loose at leather hinge. This lot and the other Chapman-related items offered in this sale were part of a collection of papers and ephemera related to the Edward Mortimer Chapman (1862-1952) family, including his first wife Isabel Northrop Chapman (1864-1920), and second wife, Louise Wadsworth Jones Chapman (1873-1959). Edward M. Chapman was a Connecticut pastor, academic, and author, and a descendant of Robert Chapman, one of the first settlers of Saybrook, Connecticut (c. 1635).