Archived Pieces — Museum

What the archive is

Archive here does not mean discontinued. It means the specific object on the listing is the only one of its kind, because the crystal inside it grew once. A number can still be ordered until it goes.

Why these cannot be remade

A faceted stone is made uniform: cut to a grid, polished to a plan, interchangeable with the next of its grade. A raw crystal kept the shape its growth gave it. Each setting was made for one stone, because the stone will not fit another.

When a number sells, it does not come back.

The stones

Tourmaline carries the archive with twenty-five pieces, in green, pink, grey, transparent and achroite — the colourless variety, named from the Greek for "without colour". Beside it: aquamarine in eight, quartz in four, meteorite in two. Three studs hold a natural crystal the catalogue does not name by species, and two Thorn Amulet necklaces are cast hollow, the chamber left waiting for a stone. Copper and steel appear where a piece joins materials.

Three forms

Classic Amulet — the stone held open, silver reduced to what the crystal needs to stay put. Eighteen pieces.

Thorn Amulet — the THORN form carried into volume. THORN is the third form of the brand: a thorn with sharp angles, bringing together CNC and 3D-modelling. Twenty-four pieces here carry it, counting four Double Thorn earrings.

Asymmetric Fused — molten silver holding a slice of Seymchan meteorite. Two necklaces, and the heaviest objects in the archive.

Reading the numbers

Classic Amulet Earring #28, Thorn Amulet Earring #23. The number is the running count of that model — the twenty-eighth made, not the twenty-eighth of an edition. It is a record of order, not of scarcity engineered for a sale.

Weight and scale

From 2.25 grams to 80 grams — a factor of thirty-five between the smallest stud and the heaviest necklace. Within a model, the stone decides: two pieces of the same size can differ, because the crystals differ.

Price and ordering

The archive runs from $130 to $1,050. Every piece is 925 sterling silver with no rhodium plating, and every piece ships worldwide. A STRUGA object is normally made for one person in about two weeks; an archive number is not remade at all, because the crystal in it grew once.

What we do not claim

We do not sell protection, energy, luck or healing. No stone here is charged, aligned or attuned to anything, and we will not say otherwise to close a sale.

What you are buying is a crystal that grew for a long time without anyone's involvement, set in silver by someone who had to work around its shape.

Care

No ultrasonic cleaning — raw crystals keep the internal fractures that cutting would have removed. Cloth or silver cleaner on the metal, keeping liquid off the stone. Off before the pool.

Read further

• Amulets: meaning and symbolism — what people believed, and where belief ends.
• The Thorn Amulet, E-0528 — how the form came about.
• Tourmaline instead of a diamond — the stone as a main stone.
• Cleaning silver without damage — what to use and what to avoid.