PRE-ORDER: Brass Concho Turtle

PRE-ORDER accepted until November 14th, 2024.
DELIVERY from December 2024.
Some stock available for immediate delivery.

This beautiful concho by The Superior Labor have the back as a button, so you can hold it on a string or a elastic.

It has the lucky shape of a turtle. A symbol of longevity in Japan.

There is a saying in Japan that says: "Tsuru wa sennen, kame wa mannen", that means: "A crane lives for a thousand years, a turtle ten thousand years"

鶴は千年亀は万年 

 
Enjoy how the brass metal of this item changes naturally with the use and the passage of time. Brass is an alloy or copper and zinc, which will naturally tarnish when exposed to oxygen. Oils from your skin in addition to oxygen in the air accelerate tarnishing on brass. Generally, brass corrodes when the zinc, copper and tin components of brass alloy are exposed to water. Oxidized brass is typically blackish, green or blue, and hardens like a thick crust over the surface of the brass. This coating usually flakes off and can be removed to reveal the shiny brass surface.

Size: Φ34mm // Φ1.37 inches
Material: Brass metal
Made in Japan