Victorian Sea Bean "Touch Wood" Pendant collars with fence and willow tree

with fence and willow tree in the background - all beautifully executed

joining the silver band at each shoulder with a stylised arrow motif

each one featuring a channel of black enamel between gold borders

Beetles & Pearls

A rival crowd of envious lovers strove

Victorian Sea Bean "Touch Wood" Pendant collars with fence and willow treeDATE: 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