Vancroft & Co
The Anchor
The Anchor
Wear it on
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Free US shipping. Every order.
Made to order. Ships in 3–5 days with tracking.
30-day returns. Wear it. If it isn't right, send it back.
- 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.
“Which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast.”
— Hebrews 6:19
When being a Christian could get you killed, the cross went underground and the anchor took its place.
Rome's early believers scratched anchors into the walls of the catacombs. An anchor was nothing — a sailor's mark, a merchant's mark, a shape nobody looked at twice in a port city. But the cross is already in it. The shank, the crossbar, the arms curving up. You could carve one in plain sight and only the people who knew would know.
They have been counted by the hundreds in the burial tunnels under Rome, cut over the names of the dead before it was safe to cut anything else.
Eighteen hundred years later it still means the same two things at once, and a man wearing one still knows which he means.
This one keeps the rope, wound at the crossbar and knotted the way it would be on a working boat.
Hold fast.
Specifications
- Hand poured solid — .999 fine silver or bronze
- 1.65" tall × 1.14" wide
- Hand-oxidized recesses, polished high points
- 0.16" black braided leather cord, 22", gunmetal magnetic barrel clasp
- Signed Certificate of Authenticity
- Poured and finished in Vermont
