Heartbound Reliquary — Keepsake Box

$72.00
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The Heartbound Reliquary is a small, hand-crafted wooden box designed as an object of holding rather than display.  At 4″ × 4″, this piece is intentionally intimate. It is sized for rings, letters, tokens, or keepsakes meant to remain protected and undisturbed. Built with precision joinery and solid materials, it is made to endure handling, time, and intention.

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The Story

The Heartbound Reliquary

No one remembers who made the first heart like this. Only that it was never meant to be empty.

The markings on the lid echo an older language—symbols used to ask questions that should not be spoken carelessly. Yes and no sit side by side, as if the answer was never the point. Those who kept the box learned quickly: it does not respond to curiosity. It responds to intention.

Inside, skeletal hands form a heart, locked in a shape that cannot loosen its grip. Bone, after all, outlasts oath and flesh alike. Whatever is placed within is said to remain bound—memories refusing to fade, love that will not release, grief that insists on being remembered.

Some say the box was meant to protect what it holds. Others say it was meant to contain it.

Left closed, it waits. Opened too often, it remembers.

Key Features

  • Approximate size: 4″ × 4″
  • Strong finger-jointed construction
  • Suitable for rings, notes, memorial items, or personal mementos
  • Free Shipping Mainland USA

 

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