Antique French Portrait Miniature, Handsome Young Blond Man in Blue Coat, c.1790 to 1829 Vernette I've placed a ruler that

I've placed a ruler that registers both inches and millimeters so you can see how incredibly tiny these stitches are

A lovely old one with the popular cavalier style gentlemen and center quintessential red & white Staffordshire spaniel

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The slightly lower silver content is quite common in French knife blades due to the added durability it affords

Antique French Portrait Miniature, Handsome Young Blond Man in Blue Coat, c.1790 to 1829 Vernette I've placed a ruler thatA beautiful green eyed blond boy, young man, c. 1810, I think, but he could be as early as c. 1790. One can fairly count on him being a student during the student uprisings, and yet his haircut might be considered the Royalist 'guillotine cut' or 'Titus', which was a fashion sported by those whose family or leaders met the guillotine in The Terror, c. 1770s. Blonds aren't often found. These frames date that early and aspects of his dress and hair