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Message:: [QUOTE="Gus Tuason, post: 515721, member: 10012"]Please read my replies to several other members. Every time I attempt to answer questions in this forum I discover new twists about the photos which may be of interest. The two sheets are not part of the glass. The glass is not part of the picture. It is just a pane of glass. The first pic. Facing the glass, looking toward the viewer is thin and has a polished surface. It also has a translucent quality which allows light through it when held up to the light. The inner side of this sheet looks and feels like regular paper. The second sheet is also thin and looks to be regular paper on both sides but has the print on the inner side. Originally the first  sheet was aligned with the second sheet and backup cardboard and the three layers taped together. Since the Old bets image was facing inwards towards sheet one and two I surmise that its purpose was merely a prop and stabilizer to the first 2 sheets. I also surmise that the placing of the date "Dec. 1861" in the upper right corner of the backside of the Old Bets picture is the date of the framing of the picture of the gentleman. In addition I would postulate that the Old Bets picture was the original occupant of the frame and that the photographer or framer was merely an early conservationist and re-using items which had not sold.[/QUOTE]