# Raven Skull Replica

> A resin cast of a raven's skull, taken from a real specimen mold and true to the millimeter, every suture and the fine texture of the bill in matte, faintly aged ivory.

Price: 46.00 USD · in stock

## About
Something watchful for the shelf, a little sly, worth listening to. A raven's skull keeps that kind of company in a study or beside a candle.Every suture is here, down to the fine texture of the bill and the thin bridge of bone between the eye sockets. It is cast in resin rather than bone, light enough to lift with two fingers, but the detail was pulled from an actual specimen mold, so the proportions hold true to the millimeter. The finish is a matte, faintly aged ivory, not the shine of a costume prop, and the resin is UV-stable, so it will not yellow or chalk in a sunlit window. It comes from a small workshop that makes ethical replicas: no bird was taken, the original only measured, molded and returned to its collection.Ravens have long stood at the edge of folklore as messengers rather than ordinary birds. In Norse myth, Odin kept two, Huginn and Muninn, thought and memory, who flew out each day and returned to tell him what they had seen. Elsewhere the raven is a trickster, a death omen or a keeper of thresholds.DetailsMaterial: UV-stable resin, matte aged-ivory finishMade from: a mold of a real specimen; no bird takenHow to useSet it on a shelf, a desk, or wherever else deserves a watchful thing.It asks nothing, judges everything, and never once blinks.