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A Gold Toad with Green Diamond Eyes

An 18k toad ring with green diamond eyes and a hidden pill compartment.

Metal
18k gold
Stones
green diamond
A Gold Toad with Green Diamond Eyes

For Jacob, Carol carved a toad in wax, every bump of its skin worked by hand, and cast it in 18k gold.

Its eyes are green diamonds, and beneath it lies a pill compartment. Jacob wrote that he picked it up from the post office and had not taken it off since.

The making, stage by stage

  1. Carving the toad

    01Carving the toad

  2. Wax detail

    02Wax detail

  3. Cast in 18k

    03Cast in 18k

  4. The pill compartment

    04The pill compartment

  5. Underside

    05Underside

  6. Finished

    06Finished

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