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-Stargazer-

*Available via DM*
Size: 7.25us can be enlarged to 7.5us maximum.

All parts are entirely hand fabricated, forged on the anvil from 950 silver. Engravings are done using a sharpened nail. No casting No electric tools.
Features a 12mm x 11mm Lepidotes fossilized tooth.

Lepidotes is an extinct fish from the Jurassic period (200 million years ago) known as a Toadstone during the medieval times. For nearly 500 years (13th-18th century), Toadstones were considered a real “stone’. It was believed that toads produced precious stones inside their head that had great powers against malignant tumours; that they were an antidote for poisons and that they protected against enchantments of witches. During the plague they were laid to the heart to strengthen it. According to physicians of the same period, the stone could be cut out of the toad’s head. Another way of extracting the stone was to place a toad on a piece of red cloth which would make it spit out it’s stone. It would then have to be taken rapidly if not the toad would swallow it back again before one can seize the precious gem. In reality Toadstones were actually fossilized teeth of an extinct genus of ray-finned fish from the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods.

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