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PAIR OF OPALOTYPE MILK GLASS PORTRAITS, with another.

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles Start Price:50.00 USD Estimated At:100.00 - 200.00 USD
PAIR OF OPALOTYPE MILK GLASS PORTRAITS, with another.
A pair of c. 1910s hand-tinted opalotype milk glass portraits, showing a man and woman, in matching gold metal frames. 4 3/8in. x 3 3/8in. Good condition.  Together with a c. 1920s hand-tinted photograph of a woman in an oval gold metal frame, set into a fitted silk- and velvet-lined leather case. 3 3/8in. x 2 1/8in.; 5 3/8in. x 4 1/4in. (case). Good condition. 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).