From the same company, which creates our ever-popular collectible miniatures, comes this realistic brooch. Saturno of Italy sculpts each figure from sterling silver and then creates realistic wildlife colorations by hand-painting layer upon layer of overlapping enamels. Treated to prevent tarnishing.

Our New York State metal crafter creates captivating reliquary boxes (meaning "receptacles for treasures") by hand running heavy gauge copper through machines from the 18th and 19th centuries, using techniques nearly lost in the modern world. A brass moon, dipped in patina, peers from beneath the glass lid amid rolling glass beads for a mesmerizing effect. Hand-patinated and velvet lined.

Coastal lighthouses have been lighting the way, guiding mariners safely since the 1700's. Our Connecticut kaleidoscope artist recreates these landmarks from turned hardwood, and the finest mirror prisms. Simply lift the light from the surrounding house and a beautiful kaleidoscope is revealed. Old Point Loma Light, San Diego, California. First built in 1855 and operated until 1891.