Vancroft & Co
Herne
Herne
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Free bronze House Mark with your first order, added at checkout.
30-day returns. Wear it. If it isn't right, send it back.
Silver darkens. Bronze darkens faster, and against skin it can leave a mark.
The seal is a clear coating applied by hand at the bench, after the piece is poured, oxidized, and relieved. It goes on thin, sits in the low places without clouding them, and locks the finish exactly where it was the day it left Vermont. The oxidation stays where it was put. The high points stay bright.
It goes on the back face and the edges — the surfaces that meet skin and shirt — so the front of the piece is untouched.
Applied to every pendant in your order before it ships. Nothing for you to do.
Add to any order.
Covers impact damage, a bent bail, and deep gouges from daily wear. If it happens, we repair or replace the piece.
Add once per pendant. Coverage runs two years from delivery.
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- Solid metal, never plated. .999 fine silver or bronze all the way through.
- Poured and finished in Vermont. By our family, one at a time, in small batches.
- Weighted to be worn. Substantial on the chest, sits clean under or over a shirt.
- Made to pass down. No plating to wear off, no trend to outgrow.
He was the king's huntsman, and the best of them.
Windsor Forest, the reign of Richard II. A stag turned on the king and Herne put himself between them, took the wound meant for his master, and was dying on the forest floor when a stranger came out of the trees and offered a cure.
It worked. The stranger cut the antlers from the dead stag and bound them to Herne's head, and he stood up alive.
But there is no such thing as a free cure. The price was the thing he was best at — his skill with the hunt, taken from him the moment he was healed. The other huntsmen turned on him. He was disgraced, and he went out into the forest and hanged himself from an oak.
That is where it should have ended.
Instead he came back. Antlers still on him, riding through Windsor at night at the head of a hunt nobody wants to meet, and men have reported seeing him for six hundred years. Shakespeare put him in a play in 1597 and wrote about him as something the locals already knew.
An oak fell in Windsor Great Park in 1863. They still call it Herne's Oak.
Poured solid in one piece, antlers and all, then oxidized deep so the face comes forward out of the metal. Bearded, and older than it looks.
They took everything he was good at. He kept the antlers.
Specifications
- Hand poured solid — .999 fine silver or bronze
- 33mm tall × 30mm wide
- Hand-oxidized recesses, polished high points
- 4mm black braided leather cord, 22", gunmetal magnetic barrel clasp
- Signed Certificate of Authenticity
- Poured and finished in Vermont
