Victorian Sea Bean "Touch Wood" Pendant collars A collection of miniature charms

A collection of miniature charms with split ring

each one featuring a channel of black enamel between gold borders

A rival crowd of envious lovers strove

Beetles & Pearls

Chrysocolla

Victorian Sea Bean "Touch Wood" Pendant collars A collection of miniature charmsDATE: 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