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A Gold Toad with Green Diamond Eyes
An 18k toad ring with green diamond eyes and a hidden pill compartment.

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

01Carving the toad

02Wax detail

03Cast in 18k

04The pill compartment

05Underside

06Finished
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