Italian Lucky Horn Pendant

For the woman whose grandmother gave her one before she was old enough to ask why.

This 18k yellow gold Italian horn pendant takes the form of the traditional cornicello, the curved horn-shaped amulet that has been worn against the malocchio (the evil eye) on the Italian peninsula for over two thousand years. The form is curved, ribbed along its length, and tapered into a fine point, polished to a mirror finish so the gold catches the light at the throat. A talisman first, jewelry second. The metal is 18k Italian gold, struck with the 750 millesimal mark and the registered Italian provincial hallmark that identifies authentic provincial goldsmithing.

The cornicello is older than Florence itself. The form descends from Etruscan and pre-Roman amulets that were carved from coral and bone in the same hills above the Arno where the goldsmiths who later took the Ponte Vecchio after 1593, when the Medici officially registered the bridge as the home of the trade, would translate the same curved shape into gold. Tradition is not the marketing here, it is the method.

This is the pendant for the woman who keeps the old protections close. The piece traditionally given as a gift, never bought for oneself, that watches the wearer from the throat.

It reads heritage. It reads protection. It reads as Italian gold doing the oldest job gold does.

Sourced from the boutiques of Ponte Vecchio, Florence. 18k yellow gold, 750 millesimal fineness, with the registered Italian provincial hallmark. DDP worldwide delivery, fully insured, duties paid before the pendant leaves Florence. Perfect Fit Guarantee included.