George Washington Engraving--World's Smallest

Can we get the engraving image larger? try and crop away the blank around the actual picture

sorry, but that is the same image just cropped. I meant a closeup.

You may want to register on the Stamp side of the Forum here. There were may early issues of Washington in ovals like that, fairly sure that may be a lithograph for one.

I thought I might have a match up for you, but on closer inspection it's not. I'll post it anyway.

In 1840, banknote engraver Charles Toppan did this incredible micro-engraving of the *entire* text of the Declaration of Independence. It is surrounded by the state seals of the original 13 colonies, with mini-portraits of Jefferson and Washington at the top. The whole thing measures 1.5 x 2.5 inches.

Your Washington portrait faces right, however, and Toppan's faces left. And, in fact, it looks like yours is a little smaller. I wouldn't be surprised if there was a friendly competition between engravers to see who could produce the smallest portrait.