Vancroft & Co
Death's Head
Death's Head
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Death's Head Pendant
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- Solid sterling, never plated. .925 sterling silver or bronze all the way through.
- Poured and finished in Vermont. By our family, one at a time, in small batches.
- Light enough for every day. Balanced on the ear, no pull, no plating to irritate.
- Made to pass down. No plating to wear off, no trend to outgrow.
It is a real animal. The death's-head hawkmoth wears a skull on its back, squeaks when you handle it, and walks into beehives to drink the honey — the bees let it, because it smells like one of them. For three hundred years people took it for a sign. It landed on candles in sickrooms. It came in the window the night someone died. Every village had a story.
The moth never knew. It was doing what it was made to do: fly at night, wear the mark, take what it wanted from the hive and walk out.
Wings folded, hammered across the whole surface, veins raised. The skull set in a ring of fine lines where the thorax would be. Poured heavy enough that it hangs still.
Wear the mark. Walk out.
Specifications
- Hand poured solid — .925 sterling silver or bronze
- Sold as a pair
- 0.83" tall × 0.87" wide
- Hammered surface, hand-oxidized recesses, polished high points
- Sterling French hook ear wires
- Ships in a gift box
- Signed Certificate of Authenticity
- Poured and finished in Vermont
