Metal: 14k Gold

Stone: Shark Tooth

Size: Approx. 1.25”W x 2.10”L from top of bale to bottom of pendant.

What You Should Know: The raddest (and baddest) vintage shark tooth pendant we’ve ever seen. She’s capped in 14k gold and her bale opens and closes with a hook clasp!

**Chain not included

People have been fascinated by sharks far before the cultural frenzy surrounding Shark Week. Those famously finned kings of the ocean have long captured the imagination of seafarers and sailors, and even writers like Hemingway and Pliny the Elder. We love that sharks are sure and determined. Noble, patient, fierce. A paragon of grace and momentum. Driven by intuition, they embody power and forcefulness. Unsinkable. 

Fossilized shark teeth have withstood great transformation. Incubated in the earth for thousands (or millions!) of years, they absorb different minerals during the fossilization process. The alchemy of minerals and time leads to those varied dark hues—that deep ebony and those gradients of steely blue-gray. 

Sharks say goodbye to about 35,000 teeth throughout the course of their lives. Luckily, they grow back fast—sometimes in the span of a day. Just like our own strength regrows and blossoms, so too do sharks regenerate their teeth, the physical manifestation of their power. It’s all a cycle; rebirth and renewal. 

Sharks are crazy resilient. And smart too! They can learn how to navigate a maze ten times faster than a rabbit and they can remember the route a year later. Sharks existed before dinosaurs and their fossilized teeth tell a 400-million year tale. With that sort of staying power, it’s no wonder sharks show up in literature and folklore across the ages and from the Pacific Islands to West Africa. Mayans saw sharks as sacred and Polynesians revered them as protective spirits. Their triangular teeth also caught the attention of ancient civilizations. Romans assumed they fell from the sky during lunar eclipses and in the Middle Ages, people mistook them for petrified dragon or snake tongues. Whatever their perceived origin, shark teeth were used throughout history as weapons, royal adornment, and good luck charms.