Description of the Abalone Pendant (Lucky Bean)

Handmade pendant with a lucky bean (abalone).

Available in sterling silver or brass plated in yellow or rose gold. The chain is made of sterling silver and plated in yellow or rose gold.

The shell used to make this jewel is unique; its size and shape may have small variations from those shown in the images.

• Length: 1 cm - 1.5 cm
  

In our catalog, it is possible to find other jewelry or amulets designed with sea shells similar to the abalone pendant (lucky bean):

• Lucky Bean Pendant
• St. Lucia's Eye Pendant

If you want to know more about the story behind this jewel, you can find out on our blog Jewels with History.

About the Abalone Pendant (Lucky Bean)

When I published the photo of the lucky beans, I realized that it was not only a symbol of childhood for me and my family, it also represented childhood for an entire invisible community that gathers every year on the beaches and is filled with joy to find this small amulet that the sea brings us. A community that remains connected to previous generations through the memory of those mothers and grandmothers who decided to share their time teaching us how to build a legacy of happy memories.

For all these reasons, I wanted to make a simpler, more economical version that does not require setting, for all those people who wish to wear this amulet.

Names for the Abalone

These days I wanted to gather all the names by which you know this piece of our childhood:

• Bolma rugosa (Scientific name)
• Little sea ears (Cádiz)
  
• Little lucky ears (Cádiz)
  
• Opercula
• St. Lucia's Stones (Mallorca)
• God's little ears
• Sea Eyes (Galicia)
• St. Lucia's Eye
• Goat's eye
• Shiva's Eye (Canary Islands)
• Indian Bean (Rota)
  
• Vidal's eye
• Cat eye (New Zealand)
  
• Sea opercula
• Migraine
• Migraine (Almería)
• Cala Conta shells (Ibiza)
• Nineta (Menorca)
• Llabriza and Orellón (Galicia)
• Headache stone (Dénia)
• Bull's eyes
• Little navels
• Elephant ear
• Venus's Eyes - Ulls de Venus (Valencia)
• Ollo Mao (Galicia)
• Big ears