This Through the Veil Darkly Skull Face pin in Sterling Silver has a lot of expression and a nice weight with a hinged pin stem and clasp. It’s not too big or too small or too heavy. It will look great on your sweater, jacket or lapel, but may hit you in the teeth as a tie tack when you bend over, so this is not recommended as a tie tack y’all.

I carved this skull face in wax, hollowed out the inside of the skull and cast it using the lost wax casting method in Sterling Silver.

This Through the Veil Darkly Skull Face Pin was inspired by my Skull Ring series. For a while in the process, I was carving skulls in my sleeping dream state! If this one could tell you something super important you forgot in your dreams, it sure would.

Once I had the wax where it looked right, I made a mold and can inject the mold with wax to make a Through the Veil Darkly Skull Face Pin for you! I cast it in sterling silver after a 14-hour burnout cycle by pouring molten sterling silver into the hollow burnout out flask. Once called and quenched, I clean it up and file and smooth the inside , solder on the catch and hinge, rivet the pin stem and I then polish the inside and oxidize the outside and brush up the high points for the details in the metal to show.

The Through the Veil Darkly Skull Face Pin is part of the Memento Mori Collection.

Death, Decay, Corruption, and constant reminders of our own mortality wait around every corner. What can we do but recognize and even celebrate these as reminders to live our lives more fully? The Stoic Philosophers of antiquity wrote that one can only live one’s life fully in the present moment by meditating on death’s inevitability. This is the thought process celebrated by Memento Mori art.

So here is your reminder to live life to the wicked fullest!

Sterling Skull Face with stainless pin stem and silver and nickel catch

22mm x 24mm