Stainless Steel Hand Ring | Skeleton Hand
Description
Description
A skeleton hand that wraps around the finger with a small skull cut into each knuckle, in 316 stainless steel, hand polished. One of the more detailed pieces on the page and it reads at a distance.
A hand as a protective symbol is about as widespread as symbols get. The hamsa runs across the whole Mediterranean and North Africa, the Hand of Sabazios stood on Roman household poles, and stencilled handprints appear on cave walls in Spain and Indonesia from around forty thousand years ago, made by people with no contact whatsoever.
A skeleton hand puts that alongside memento mori, which is the other tradition this ring belongs to. Protection and mortality on the same finger, which is fair enough, since the two subjects have never really been separate.
What You're Getting
- Material: 316 stainless steel
- Finish: Vacuum electroplated and hand polished
- Skin: Nickel free, lead free, suits sensitive skin
How to Wear It
- The knuckle detail is the part people notice. Keep it facing out.
- 316 steel needs no care and will not react with skin.
- Steel does not resize, so check the size before ordering.
Wear It With
See the top hat skull ring and browse rings and protection and warding.
316 stainless steel, which is the marine and surgical grade: the added molybdenum is what stops it pitting or reacting, so it will not turn a finger green and it will not tarnish. Hand polished, so the finish varies slightly ring to ring.