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Vintage Bronze The Hand That Helps Charm
SKU: 3c3-27-B
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The Hand That Helps is exactly what its name says: an open hand held upright, the fingers together and the thumb spread, rising from a broad textured cuff at the wrist, with a raised rounded boss at the center of the palm. The gesture is a hand offered rather than a hand asking.
Votive hands belong to a wide folk tradition of protective charms, and in Catholic practice they stand close to the milagros pinned to shrine images throughout the Spanish-speaking world. Where a milagro hand petitions, for work or for healing or for the hands that keep a family fed, this one answers. It is the help that arrives: the hand put out to someone who has slipped, the old promise that no one is left to manage alone. Carried in a pocket or worn close, it is a small daily reminder to be that hand for somebody else.
The charm was faithfully reproduced from an antique original and cast in the USA using a traditional fine-detail casting process that preserves its vintage character.
- Made in the USA
- Artisan-cast from an antique original
- Finished by hand, so every piece is subtly unique.
- Buy the medal alone, or add an optional chain or cord necklace
- Add a cord or chain to have it arrive assembled and ready to wear
- Arrives in a deluxe velour jewelry box
Product Details
The Hand That Helps is exactly what its name says: an open hand held upright, the fingers together and the thumb spread, rising from a broad textured cuff at the wrist, with a raised rounded boss at the center of the palm. The gesture is a hand offered rather than a hand asking.
Votive hands belong to a wide folk tradition of protective charms, and in Catholic practice they stand close to the milagros pinned to shrine images throughout the Spanish-speaking world. Where a milagro hand petitions, for work or for healing or for the hands that keep a family fed, this one answers. It is the help that arrives: the hand put out to someone who has slipped, the old promise that no one is left to manage alone. Carried in a pocket or worn close, it is a small daily reminder to be that hand for somebody else.
The charm was faithfully reproduced from an antique original and cast in the USA using a traditional fine-detail casting process that preserves its vintage character.
- Made in the USA
- Artisan-cast from an antique original
- Finished by hand, so every piece is subtly unique.
- Buy the medal alone, or add an optional chain or cord necklace
- Add a cord or chain to have it arrive assembled and ready to wear
- Arrives in a deluxe velour jewelry box
