The whole shop.

Six old keys, no two alike, on a plain iron ring: iron and brass, mostly English and American, mid-1800s to early 1900s, each with the soft darkness of a century of pockets.

$18.00

One amethyst geode from southern Brazil, split into matched halves, ground flat and felted at the base, toothed with violet crystal inside and heavy enough to hold a full shelf of

$76.00

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.

$46.00

A bismuth crystal grown, not carved, into stairstep, hollow-square terraces, its oxide skin shifting through blue, gold and violet like oil on a puddle.

$22.00

Twelve glassed compartments in a dark-stained wooden drawer, each holding one small wonder such as mica, sea glass or amethyst, labeled by hand in fading copperplate: a very small

$96.00

A glossy, root-beer-brown fossil shark tooth from Morocco's ancient seabed, likely ten to twenty million years old, every serration still intact.

$14.00

A six-inch brass sun, earth and moon on a turned wooden base: turn the small side crank and the little heavens move, geared true to the ratio of time.

$120.00

A trilobite curled in dark Moroccan stone, some 390 million years old, its compound eyes still legible under a loupe.

$38.00

Coarse sea salt darkened with activated charcoal and hearth ash, for the old folk custom of drawing a dark line across a threshold.

$13.00

A small handbell of solid brass with a turned wooden handle, sand-cast and tuned by ear in India: one clear note to open the working, and another to close it.

$34.00

A pale gold splash of citrus, lavender and clove after a nineteenth-century toilet-water formula, patted on the neck or poured into wash water, as Caribbean and Latin American hous

$17.00

A hand-dipped taper of true bayberry wax in a coconut-wax base, sage green and scented of bay and balsam, for the old New England custom of burning it down on New Year's Eve.

$29.00

Ten quick-light bamboo charcoal discs, foil-wrapped in a roll, each dimpled to cradle resin or herb: the small, quiet fire beneath every censer and home altar.

$9.00

Dried Mediterranean rosemary, hand-bundled in unbleached cotton twine: the herb of remembrance, burned at doorways in old folk custom, now a gentle smoke for clearing a room each w

$10.50

A hand-plaited rope of sweetgrass about a foot long, green and grassy at first, deepening toward vanilla and warm hay the longer it rests in a drawer.

$9.50

Mysore-style masala incense, hand-rolled in South India around thin bamboo cores: a dry sweetness between cedar and warm milk unlit, opening into rounder, creamier sandalwood smoke

$12.00

True Siam benzoin, Styrax tonkinensis, in amber-brown lumps and tears that smell of vanilla and almond even in the jar: the old apothecary's gum benjamin, for charcoal or a pan of

$14.50

Sun-gold tears of copal blanco from the highlands of Chiapas, bright with pine resin and orange peel, burned on charcoal as offering smoke since before incense had a name.

$15.00

A sprig of rue in sterling silver, branching into seven tiny charms, moon, key, heart, flower, dagger and serpent among them, each soldered on by hand in the old Neapolitan style.

$58.00

A single acorn, cap and all, cast in recycled sterling silver from a mold of a real acorn: strength held in reserve, small enough to close in your fist, on a fine silver chain.

$18.00

A cast bronze Green Man, his beard and wreath of oak leaves in shadow-throwing relief, on a forest-green waxed cord: the leafy face of medieval church eaves, made to wear.

$21.00

Thor's hammer at pendant scale, cast in rough-textured pewter from a mold based on an archaeological find, on a braided leather cord.

$27.00

The Icelandic wayfinder stave, eight arms around a center, in dark oxidized lead-free pewter on a leather cord: a sign said in folklore to keep its bearer from losing the way.

$24.00

Two hands cupping a crowned heart in hand-finished sterling silver: friendship, love and loyalty, the old Galway emblem, just under an inch tall on its own silver chain.

$52.00

An open triquetra knot in satin pewter, about an inch across, on a waxed cord you knot to any length: three arcs with no beginning and no end.

$17.00

An old ward in a small, exact geometry: a sterling silver pentacle about the width of a coin, its star recessed and darkened, on a fine sterling chain.

$34.00

An open palm cast in brass under antique silver plating, engraved in a North African pattern: the hamsa, worn face-out by old custom to turn an envious look away.

$29.00

Solid brass, cast in one piece and heavier than it looks: the ankh, ancient Egypt's sign of life, on a waxed black cord, polished bright in front and left to darken behind.

$22.00

A raw, carbon-black chunk of shungite from Karelia in northwest Russia, essentially the one place on earth it is found in quantity: about two billion years old, heavy in the hand,

$18.00

A pocket tumble of bloodstone from India, deep green flecked with iron-red: the warrior's talisman of old, hard enough for daily carry, for the days that call for nerve.

$12.50

Three small, iron-dark hematite tumbles from Brazil, heavy as hardware and polished to a near-mirror sheen, for a pocket on an unsteady day or the corner of your desk.

$13.00

A raw chunk of pale blue aquamarine from the pegmatite fields of Minas Gerais, Brazil, still showing the hexagonal faces of its beryl crystal: the sailor's stone of folklore.

$19.50

A tumbled rainbow moonstone from Rajasthan, milky and faintly gray, with a blue flash that travels under the surface as it turns in your hand, a companion for moonlit nights.

$14.50

A 45 mm sphere of polished tiger's eye from South Africa, amber and root-brown, with a band of gold light that slides across it as it turns in the hand.

$127.00

A polished palm stone of banded malachite from the Democratic Republic of Congo, ringed in moss green and near-black like the rings of a felled tree.

$29.00

Tumbled sodalite from near Bahia, Brazil, royal blue veined with white calcite and worn smooth under the thumb: the thinker's stone of old custom, kept on the desks of scholars and

$10.50

A single smoky quartz point from Brazil, untreated, shading from clear at the tip to root-beer brown at the base, with threads of rutile inside: an old anchor stone for restless da

$24.00

Dozens of honey-gold points rising from a single quartz base, throwing warm light across the sill: the merchant's stone of folklore, kept beside shop tills for generations.

$44.00

Valerian root and whole hop cones, earthy and bitter, an old evening pairing steeped long and hot in the last half hour before bed.

$22.00

Food-grade English lavender buds from a single farm in Provence, dried on screens: a floral, faintly camphorous, caffeine-free cup that steeps to a pale straw-violet for the last h

$15.50

Wild-harvested dandelion root, slow-roasted in small batches until it smells almost like coffee: a dark, reddish-brown, caffeine-free brew tasting of roasted chicory and scorched c

$12.50

Whole fennel seeds from Gujarat, sun-dried on open threshing floors: crush a spoonful, steep it long, and sip a licorice-sweet cup with a clean aniseed finish after supper.

$11.00

Krishna tulsi, the purple-leafed holy basil of northern India, hand-harvested and shade-dried: a caffeine-free cup of warm amber with a clove-and-mint, peppery-sweet scent.

$14.50

Shade-grown yerba mate from Misiones, Argentina, flame-dried and aged: coarse, faintly smoky, bittersweet and caffeinated, the shared daily cup of the Rio de la Plata.

$13.50

A rice-paper-wrapped disc of ripe pu-erh from old-growth gardens in Yunnan: earthy and deep, scented with dried fruit and old wood, and good for many steepings.

$28.00

A Taiwanese Jin Xuan oolong rolled into small green pearls, with a natural note of warm cream and orchid and no milk at all.

$19.50

Bai Hao Yin Zhen, Silver Needle proper: plump, downy spring buds simply withered and dried in filtered sun, brewing a pale gold, almost water-white cup.

$26.00

First flush Japanese sencha, steamed in the old style: jade-green needles that brew a pale, grassy cup with a whisper of the sea and a savory sweetness.

$16.50

The blue pigment of spirulina, for color without the pond taste.

$28.00

Olive-green kelp and deep maroon dulse, hand-harvested at low tide, dried by sun and wind, and flaked for seasoning.

$13.50

Hydrolyzed collagen from the skin of wild-caught white fish: nearly odorless, startlingly fine, and gone into cold water within a minute.

$34.00

Pale yellow pea protein isolate from non-GMO Canadian yellow split peas, water-fractionated and mild in flavor, with 24 grams of protein in every 30-gram scoop.

$32.00

Golden flaxseed, cold-milled in small batches to a fine tawny meal with a faint scent of hay, carrying fiber, plant omega-3 and lignans.

$12.50

Shelled hemp seeds, soft, buttery and nutty like pine nuts, about a third protein and mechanically hulled: scatter them over yogurt, oatmeal or salad straight from the bag.

$18.00

Dried and milled Andean lucuma: a dense, warm-ochre powder that tastes of maple sugar, sweet potato and dried apricot.

$14.00

Amazonian camu camu berries, freeze-dried whole and milled to a pale rose-tan powder as sharp as sherbet: a teaspoon stirred into juice, with a little mango or honey alongside.

$24.00

Hand-stripped moringa leaves from smallholder farms in Tamil Nadu, shade-dried and ground to a fine khaki powder: green, slightly bitter, with a peppery bite like watercress.

$16.50

Young wheatgrass, cut before it seeds, juiced and spray-dried within hours into a fine green powder that clouds to deep jade in a glass of cold water.

$19.00

Roasted, stone-ground velvet bean, near-black with a rich, almost cocoa-like smell, an old Ayurvedic tonic bean.

$24.00

Jiaogulan, the five-leaf sweet tea vine of southern China, steeps into a pale jade cup that opens bitter and finishes surprisingly sweet: an afternoon tea in place of the second co

$17.50