Antique American Portrait Miniature, c.1800, ID'd and Artist Noted in Oyster Frame writer's or just use it for

or just use it for your jewelry

These dressing travel chests are so rare to find now and almost never complete

Beautiful shape for just hanging on your wall

and a fragile beauty

he opens to reveal a compartment for pipe tobacco

Antique American Portrait Miniature, c.1800, ID'd and Artist Noted in Oyster Frame writer's or just use it forAnother American portrait miniature from my collection, this handsome distinguished gentleman is ID's in back, noting him to be "James Woodhouse" from New York, who died in 183 something (I didn't open the back, which seems complicated, and can only read what you see). It would appear that an artist's name is also mentioned as "W. Jarvin". I'm able to find a James Woodhouse but he's a generation older. A Dr in Pennsylvania, he died in 1809. It might