Victorian Sea Bean "Touch Wood" Pendant blue john The hang from posts

The hang from posts

The cover is EPNS silver

or a memento for someone who needs to slow down

exceptionally well proportioned

along with the words Er Sei Dein Glücksstern - This Be Your Lucky Star - in black enamel around the outside

Victorian Sea Bean "Touch Wood" Pendant blue john The hang from postsDATE: Victorian, c. 1900 Cool antique sea bean pendant designed to be worn as a touch wood. Sea beans (aka Drift Seeds) are a hard seed , fruit, or nut adapted for long journeys over water. Falling into the ocean in the Caribbean or mainland Americas, these exotic travellers would occasionally wash up on European shores causing wonder and amazement, and ultimately becoming associated with luck and good fortune it is said that a coconut can survive