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A charcoal linen journal with a sewn binding, ribbon marker and 160 lightly lined, fountain-pen-friendly pages, for keeping faithful record of every card drawn and every answer.

$14.00

A square of heavy cotton, hand-dyed in fermented indigo and stitched with a pale circle and four compass marks: the quiet ground for bones, runes, shells or charms.

$36.00

A hand-riveted pasteboard volvelle, 18 centimeters across, that turns a name into numbers and reduces them, by old custom, to the single digit said to carry its character.

$54.00

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

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 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

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

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 hinged crescent moon locket in oxidized sterling silver, charcoal-dark with the shine left only on its raised grain, hollow enough to hold a curl of hair, a pinch of herb or a fo

$42.00