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PHOTOGRAPH OF A WOMAN IN HARD CASE, 19TH CENTURY.

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles Start Price:50.00 USD Estimated At:100.00 - 150.00 USD
PHOTOGRAPH OF A WOMAN IN HARD CASE, 19TH CENTURY.
The case is molded with a musical tableau of figures at a spinet, with a scrolling border. The paper photograph shows a c. 1860s woman with long earrings, holding a photograph case in her hands. The case is in good condition; the photograph has toning/spotting. 3 3/4in. x 3 1/4in. 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).