FORGED
Every piece in the Forged drop begins with a primary source.
The actual handwriting, the actual object. Two women who exercised power in worlds designed to deny it — and left evidence we can still hold.
Forged is for people who know that history belongs to the people who make it.
The Inspiration
Most jewellery claiming historical inspiration is vague — a vibe, a colour palette, a half-remembered myth. Forged means something specific: every piece is engraved with an image or words that exist, that have been photographed, catalogued, studied by scholars.
Anne Boleyn's actual handwriting, from a manuscript she held in her own hands. Cleopatra's only surviving autograph, on a tax document signed two years before everything fell apart. A goddess painted on a tomb wall in the city Cleopatra ruled, claimed as her own image.
Forged isn't inspired by history. It's made from it.
The Sources
Anne Boleyn left behind a Book of Hours — a private prayer book, displayed at Hever Castle — containing the only intimate, unguarded glimpse we have of her interior life. On one page: an inscription, a personal symbol, and her own signature. Written before she was queen.
Cleopatra VII left behind a single word, in her own hand, on a piece of administrative bureaucracy: a tax exemption for an ally of Mark Antony. Historians believe it's the only surviving sample of her handwriting in existence. Two years later, Actium and the end of an empire. But first: one word of absolute authority.
Both women are remembered, mostly, for how their stories ended. Forged is interested in something else — the evidence of who they were while they were still deciding what would happen next.
This collection launches on the summer solstice — the longest day, the point of greatest light before the year turns. It felt right for a collection built on women who made the most of the time they had.
The Pieces
Four pendants. Two women.
Each pendant is engraved with a primary source — handwriting, signature, or image — and set with a stone chosen for genuine historical and material reasons, not aesthetic convenience. Available in sterling silver or gold vermeil.