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PORTRAIT MINIATURE IN FITTED CASE, 1912.

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles Start Price:50.00 USD Estimated At:100.00 - 200.00 USD
PORTRAIT MINIATURE IN FITTED CASE, 1912.
The painted portrait of a woman is signed and dated l/r: "C. P. Newell 1912"; in a gilt metal frame. 3 1/4in. x 2 1/5in. (portrait frame); 5in. x 3 5/8in. (leather case with easel back). Good condition; some wear to case, fraying to inner lining. 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).