Vancroft & Co
The Sixth Hour
The Sixth Hour
Free US shipping. Every order.
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.
“And it was about the sixth hour, and there was a darkness over all the earth until the ninth hour. And when Jesus had cried with a loud voice, he said, Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit.”
— Luke 23:44, 46
The sixth hour was noon. Not evening, not night — the brightest part of the day, and the sun went out of it.
Roman crucifixion was not designed to kill quickly. It was designed to be watched. They did it beside roads and at the gates of cities, where anyone walking past would see it and understand. The word excruciating comes from it — out of the cross.
He was there six hours. Three in the light and three in the dark.
Poured solid in a single piece, the cross face worked rough — pitted and uneven rather than polished. The figure stands out from it small enough that you find it rather than being handed it. Oxidation settles into every low place and pulls it forward.
Three hours in the dark. Then it was finished.
Specifications
- Hand poured solid — .999 fine silver or bronze
- 41mm tall × 23mm 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
