Collection: Between $100 and $500

What this page is

The shop has a price ladder and this is the rung that was missing from it. Under $10 is where it sells stone and smoke; Candles Under $20 is the entry to the candle wall; Exceptional Pieces, over $500, is where the single collector objects live. Everything between $100 and $500 had no page of its own until now, which meant seventy-five pieces across eight departments could only be found by knowing what you were looking for.

What changes at a hundred dollars

Something specific happens to this catalog at the $100 line: it stops selling things that disappear. Of the seventy-five pieces here, sixty-eight are still there after you have used them. Below $100 the shop is largely candle, oil, incense stick, smudge bundle and cacao — goods designed to be consumed. Here the composition inverts: thirty-four pieces of jewelry, twenty objects for the house and the altar, seven pieces of stone, five instruments, two books, two rituals, and five things that are drunk or burned. If you are buying at this level you are mostly buying something that will outlast the reason you bought it.

What the price is actually buying

Not the stone, and usually not the size. In this band the reliable price variable is the finish. The same layering choker is $429.95 in oxidized silver and $484.95 in an 18k gold finish, with identical glass and identical construction. The same enamel ear cuff is $153.95 or $171.95 depending on the metal. The clearest case is a single ring offered in sterling silver at $76.99 and in gold vermeil at $182.95 — one design, one cabochon, and the metal more than doubles it. Read the finish line before the stone line; it is where the money went.

How to judge a piece at this level

Ask what survives. A $145.95 ceremony kit that leaves you a frother and a copper cup is a different purchase from $145.95 of cacao.

On plated jewelry, read the plating. Micron thickness, base metal and whether it is nickel-free are the durability facts. The stones in these pieces will outlive the surface they sit on.

On vessels, read what they may hold. Unsealed terracotta is decorative and not watertight. Carbonate stone etches. A tray and a bowl are not interchangeable.

On instruments, the tuning is the specification. A note and a frequency say more about what an instrument is for than its diameter does, and in this shop the small tuned pieces are not the cheap ones.

Honestly named

Eighteen pieces in this price band are currently unpublished, and fifteen of them come from one maker's layering line — almost every alternative finish of the chokers and bracelets. The consequence is awkward: the silver-against-gold comparison that this page recommends as the way to read the band can only be run on two products, because the other half of nearly every pair is invisible. One further piece, the Planchette Ring, opens below the band at $76.99 in sterling and only enters it in gold vermeil; it is left here and named rather than filtered out, because it is the cleanest illustration of what the extra money in this band is for.

Where this sits

The ladder this page is one rung of now has all its rungs: Under $10 with eighty pieces, Candles Under $20 with nineteen, this band, and Exceptional Pieces above $500 with thirty-six single objects. In practice nothing here is priced below $76.99 or above $484.95 — the sterling Planchette Ring opens the band from underneath, and the two chokers in an 18k gold finish close it.

By department: thirty-four of the seventy-five are jewelry and also stand in Spiritual Jewelry, split fourteen bracelets, thirteen necklaces & malas and seven rings & earrings. Twenty are for the house and the altar under Altar & Home, nine of them the bowls, trays and vases. Eight are crystals and stones. Five are instruments in Sound & Vibration, four of those drums, gongs and bells and the fifth the $385.95 singing bowl. Eight come from Ritual Kitchen, half of them ceremonial cacao. Both rituals, at $197.00 and $397.00, are here and in no other price band.

Two cross-cuts run through the band. Sixteen of these pieces exist once and once only and are gathered in One of a Kind. Fifteen carry an animal — six panther cuffs, five snake and double-panther statement cuffs, two butterfly prints and two ear cuffs — which is why Animal Totems meets this band harder than any other theme in the shop.

Frequently asked questions

Why does this page start at $100 and stop at $500?

Because those are the two points where the shop changes character. Below about $100 it sells things that get used up — candles, oils, incense, bundles, loose stones. Above $500 it sells single collector pieces with no second copy, which have their own page. In between sits the band you are looking at: made things that survive being used, in more than one of every category the shop carries.

Why are so many things here the same price?

Because in this band the price is set by the model, not by the materials. Six panther cuffs from the same Paris workshop are all $143.95 and differ only in colorway; five statement cuffs from the same maker are all $418.95. Picking a color costs nothing. The money buys the piece, and then the choice is free.

What is the difference between the silver and the gold version of the same piece?

The finish, and almost nothing else. The Fang Layering Choker is $429.95 in oxidized silver and $484.95 in an 18k gold finish — the same 1960s dead-stock glass, the same weave, made in the same workshop. The Luna Moth ear cuff is $153.95 in the oxidized version and $171.95 in gold. The one place this gets dramatic is the Planchette Ring, which is $76.99 in sterling silver and $182.95 in gold vermeil: the same ring and the same stone, at more than double.

Is anything on this page consumable?

Five of the seventy-five. Four are cacao — single-origin blocks, elixir sets and a ceremony starter kit, of which the kit leaves you the frother and the copper cup afterwards — and one is a deluxe candle spell kit. Two further entries are rituals rather than objects. The remaining sixty-eight are still there when you have finished using them, and that is the defining fact about this price band.

Can I buy a ritual here rather than an object?

Yes, and it is the only place in the shop where you can. Two of the entries on this page are not things at all: a written ritual composed for your situation at $197.00, and a ritual planned and performed for you at the maker's own altar at $397.00, which comes back as a written report and a personal voice message. They sit here because of what they cost, but they are the only two entries you cannot put on a shelf.

How should I care for the things on this page?

By the softest material in the piece rather than the headline one. The terracotta vessels are unsealed and are not watertight — dried stems only. Marble and travertine trays etch permanently if anything acidic reaches them. Plated cuffs and chokers should be stored flat and kept off knitwear, because a woven link and a loose weave will find each other. Stone and mineral pieces want a dry cloth and their own spot, not a shared bowl.