"small but fine" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe physical items that may be on the smaller side, but still have a quality look or feel. For example, "She ordered a small but fine necklace for her sister's birthday."
The latter had one small but fine display of objects from Moroccan synagogues, now sadly almost vanished from the country.
In western Thebes, he built a small but fine mortuary temple, and he also left memorials at Memphis, the residence of his youth.
With its opulent temple and small but fine museum, Khoo Kongsi (18 Cannon Square; 60-4-261-4609; khookongsiscomost; 10 ringgit) is most definitely worth a look.
Around a 1906 bank, which was redesigned as Mintz's house by Brawer & Hauptman of Philadelphia, is a small but fine garden with diverse horticulture.
A doctor in a Seville hospital told her that she had had a son, who was small but "fine and capable of getting a lot bigger," she recalled in an interview.
Marty, which offers a true and rare nonsmoking area on the second floor, also has a small but fine selection of New World wines, including the delicious Cloudy Bay sauvignon blanc from New Zealand ($34).
It remains one of the smaller but finer producers of French Champagnes.
A few small but extremely fine gold figurines of undoubted Javanese workmanship have also turned up.
A suite of small but particularly fine drawings done around 1915-16 by the Swiss "outsider" Adolf Wolfli (1865-1930) is on view at Phyllis Kind's booth.
The optical phonon energies corresponding to different vibrational modes in anatase and rutile phases are very small, but the fine structural changes at lattice scale are significantly visible in the energy band diagram.
During the '60s in Southern California, two major events were occurring: The Military-Industrial complex was innovating aerospace and telecommunication technologies and a small but potent fine art movement was blooming in the city of Los Angeles.
