I produce these pieces here in New York. The original was carved by hand here using a real crow skull as reference. This is about a 1/4 the scale of an adult American raven skull. We fussed around with various scales, and this is the one that feels right. It's sharply detailed and beautifully finished. The hoop on the head is cast as part of the piece, not soldered, so it's very durable. I included a shot from the Candela shoot at the Jane Hotel in the West Village during fashion week. This gives you an idea as to what the piece looks like on a model.

The piece measures 1&1/2-inches long (4cm) and 1/2-inch wide (2cm).

It comes on a 2.5mm 18-inch long gun metal chain with a lobster clasp.

All my pieces come wrapped in tissue paper in a gift box.

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About shipping.

I don't make a profit from shipping. The cost is for 1st class postage and the packing materials which I buy wholesale.

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- Crow Corvid Corvidae

If you read my listings you know I am an avid wood wanderer. I have been on the lookout for a dead crow my whole life. Once, while hiking into Woodstock after visiting a French crone I knew. There I came upon a dead crow. As I bent down to touch it the trees resounded with the caws of his fellows. I took one feather and held it up to them and I backed off. They fell silent and I moved off. That crow skull might have cost more than I wanted to pay.

More about the raven and crow family:

The Celts believed that Crow was an omen of death and conflict. She was associated with death transitions. Another belief was that the birds were faeries who shape-shifted to cause troubles. Magickal qualities included bringing knowledge, shape-shifting, eloquence, prophecy, boldness, skill, knowledge, cunning, trickery and thievery.

In the Middle Ages, people believed that sorcerers and witches used the symbol of Crow’s foot to cast death spells.

In most of England, seeing a solitary crow meant anger, but in Northamptonshire, it meant ill fortune. Crow, cawing in a hoarse voice, meant bad weather. A death omen was a crow cawing thrice as it flew over a house. The Irish believed that Crow flocking in trees, but not nesting were souls from Purgatory. Finding a dead crow was a sign of good fortune. Russians believed that witches took the shape of Crow.

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