Memento Mori | Ready to Send Ring | size 19 | garnet | Curiosity Cabinet

Will release on 26/27-09-26 to all visitors of the Duystere Markt Roeselare. Worldwide website release 28-09-26.

Handcrafted Gothic Memento Mori Skull and Bone Ring in Recycled Sterling Silver with Garnet | Size 19 | Ready to Send

This ring is a size 19 and the size cannot be altered. She is already made, set with a natural garnet, blackened and finished by hand. No production time, no eight week wait, she ships within 5 working days. If you need a different size or a different stone, she also exists as a made to order creation, available in every ring size.

The Essence

Skulls, bones, leaves.
Blood-dark garnet in the middle of it.
Size 19, ready when you are.

Inspiration & Story

Memento Mori belongs to the Curiosity Cabinet collection, a realm built from witchcraft, folklore, natural oddities and the strange beauty of things we keep.

She began with a very heavy German book. Der Ring im Wandel der Zeit, a gift from good friends, mapping the entire history of ring making. The pages Kaat kept going back to were the memento mori rings: skulls, coffins, tiny bones worn on the hand.

What makes them interesting is the context. As the Renaissance loosened the church's grip, people started studying the world for themselves. Plants, anatomy, decay, all at once. So jewelry went botanical and skeletal in the same breath. Leaves and skulls, growth and rot, in one ring, and nobody at the time found that strange.

Skulls gather around the stone, the shank runs into bone and creeping leaves, and the whole thing carries both halves: the part that ends and the part that grows over it. The recesses are blackened and the raised surfaces polished back up by hand, which is what gives the skulls their sockets and the leaves their depth at this scale.

This one wears a natural garnet, and of everything we set in this design it is the most historically correct. Garnet is one of the oldest stones in European jewelry and it turns up constantly in surviving mourning pieces, for the obvious reason: it is the colour of blood, held still. Faceted and prong-set above all that bone, it reads as the living thing in the middle.

Memento mori was never only about death. It was about noticing that you are alive. These were made to be worn on ordinary days, not kept for funerals. The full history is in what memento mori actually means and why it ended up in jewelry.

People do buy this one as an engagement ring, and we are entirely in favour. Engagement rings without rules explains why the diamond expectation is younger and flimsier than most people think. And if you want to know how a wide, detailed ring sits on a hand, which type of ring suits your hand and finger type is genuinely useful.

Made in our own atelier in the Netherlands, in real recycled 925 sterling silver. No plating, no filled, no vermeil. The honest breakdown of what those words mean is in solid gold vs gold filled vs vermeil vs gold plated.

Perfect for lovers of memento mori jewelry, garnet rings, gothic skull rings, alternative engagement rings, cemetery symbolism, Victorian mourning jewelry and witchy sterling silver rings.

Creation Details

Jewelry Type: Ring
Availability: Ready to Send
Collection: Curiosity Cabinet
Brand: Atelier Wolfstone
Material: Recycled 925 Sterling Silver
Gemstone(s): Oval faceted garnet, natural. This exact stone, already set. Not personisable on this creation.

Weight: 5.95 g
Size: Ring size 19. This exact size only.
Sizing: Not adjustable. This ring is finished and cannot be resized. Every other size is available through the made to order version.
Personalisation: None on this creation. She is finished as shown.

Shipping Time: Ships within 5 working days

This is a Ready to Send creation. She is a variation of our Memento Mori made to order ring, already made in this exact size and stone, so she leaves the atelier as soon as you order her. Need a different size, or amethyst, olive green, sapphire, something else? Go to the made to order version and build your own, in any ring size, with an 8 to 12 week production time.

Crafted using in-house digital and traditional techniques: 3D designing, 3D printing, casting, sawing, shaping, soldering, stone setting, engraving, blackening and polishing.

Every skull, bone and leaf was finished by hand. The blackening was worked into the recesses and polished back off the raised surfaces, and every prong was closed over the garnet at the bench by us.

Style & Wear

A serious gothic statement ring for memento mori, cemetery and skull-loving baddies, and a genuinely good alternative engagement ring.

She is detailed rather than tall, so she reads as substantial without standing far off the finger, and the shank narrows toward the back which keeps her comfortable for all-day wear. She stacks beautifully with a plain band, and she wants real light rather than flat light, because the blackened detail needs something to catch.

Deep red against blackened silver is a warm, high-contrast combination, so she sits happily next to gold and mixed metals as well as in an all-silver stack. Garnet also holds its colour under warm indoor light in a way cooler stones do not, which is where most people actually see a ring.

Perfect for a proposal that was never going to involve a diamond, a memorial you wear rather than visit, a market you got dressed up for, and any day that could use a reminder that you are still here.

Practical Notes

• Images are unedited and photographed in a light box and only lightly enhanced to adjust the lighting.
• Model pictures can be edited.
• Colors may vary slightly in real life.
• 6 months warranty starting from the day of delivery.
• Warranty covers defects in workmanship.
• This warranty is in addition to your statutory rights under EU consumer law.
• Always check gemstone hardness and physical properties to see if this gemstone suits you.
• Prices include 21 percent VAT.

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Questions & Answers

What does Ready to Send mean?
It means this exact ring is already made and finished. No production time. She ships within 5 working days instead of the 8 to 12 weeks a made to order piece takes.

What size is this ring?
Size 19, and only size 19. She is already finished, so this one cannot be made bigger or smaller. Every other size is available through the made to order version.

Can this ring be resized?
Not this one. The bone and leaf detail runs around a large part of the band, so there is very little plain metal to cut into, and resizing would distort the design. Order the made to order version in your own size instead.

Can I change the gemstone?
Not on this one. The garnet is already set and cannot be swapped. The made to order version lets you choose your own.

Is this garnet natural?
Yes, this is a natural garnet, not a synthetic or a simulant. We label every stone we set as genuine or synthetic, because those are different things and you deserve to know which one you are buying.

What does memento mori mean?
Latin for remember you must die. It sounds grim and it was never meant to be. The point was always the other half: remember that you are, right now, alive. That is why these were made as everyday jewelry rather than funeral objects.

Why are there skulls and leaves on the same ring?
Because that is how they were actually made. As the Renaissance loosened the church's grip on knowledge, people began studying plants, anatomy and decay directly, and jewelry followed. Botanical and skeletal in one object, growth and rot together, and nobody thought it a contradiction.

Why garnet specifically?
It is the most historically faithful stone for this design. Garnet is one of the oldest gemstones in European jewelry and appears constantly in surviving mourning pieces, largely because of the colour. Deep, still, blood-red.

Is garnet hard enough for daily wear?
Garnet sits around 7 to 7.5 on the Mohs scale, so yes for regular wear. Over decades of daily wear it can pick up fine surface marks on the top facet, which can be repolished. If you want the single toughest option in this design, sapphire is a 9, available through the made to order version.

Will the blackening wear off?
The recessed blackening is durable because it sits down in the detail where nothing rubs. Raised areas brighten over years of wear, which most people prefer, since the contrast that develops becomes yours. We can reset it if you ever want it back to new.

Will sterling silver tarnish?
Yes, all sterling silver does. Normal reaction to air and skin, not a fault. On this ring a little tarnish genuinely improves things. Your upkeep document explains how to clean her without scrubbing the blackening out of the skulls.

Can this ring be made in gold?
Yes, through the made to order version. We work in 14K and 18K as well as sterling silver, and for something you plan to wear daily for fifty years that conversation is worth having. Message us and we will quote it.