Elegant French Gentleman Portrait Miniature, Louis-Philippe Era, Napoleon Hair and Gold Stick Pin French Revolution snuff and the original little hook

and the original little hook toward the top is secure

which would have been a small glass or ceramic insert

It still gives quite a remarkable magnification view

which would be there to reflect light back up through the wafer

Elegant French Gentleman Portrait Miniature, Louis-Philippe Era, Napoleon Hair and Gold Stick Pin French Revolution snuff and the original little hookInteresting handsome gentleman with a combination of a judgmental nose and labials and those sidelined eyes and worried eyebrows, it makes me wonder what he was like in person. The forward swept curls after the Napoleon haircuts, a thick cravat of the post Revolution which might tell us he is a son or grandson of a Nobel who was lost to the guillotine. These thick wraps symbolized a reattachment bandage and were worn as protest. His gold and gem set