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Pick what you’re wishing for, then where in the world you’d like the symbol to come from. Every card shows its earliest record.

17 symbols from Britain & IrelandSort

Britain & Ireland · For courageTriskeleNewgrange, about 3200 BCPendant from £28 · story card £8 Sample price

Britain & Ireland · For a happy homeCeltic knotGospel books, from about the 7th centuryPendant from £28 · story card £8 Sample price

Britain & Ireland · For a fresh startWishboneHartlieb’s goose bone, 1455Pendant from £28 · story card £8 Sample price

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Britain & Ireland · Against the darkDaisy wheelScratched marks, England, most common 16th–early 19th c.Pendant from £28 · story card £8 Sample price

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Britain & Ireland · Against the darkMarian markGainsborough Old Hall, Lincolnshire — owned by William Hickman from 1596Pendant from £28 · story card £8 Sample price

Britain & Ireland · For a fresh startFour-leaf cloverMelton’s Astrologaster, 1620Pendant from £28 · story card £8 Sample price

Britain & Ireland · For loveWelsh love spoonOldest dated spoon, 1667Story card from £2.99 Sample price

Britain & Ireland · For a fresh startHorseshoeAubrey’s Miscellanies, 1696Pendant from £28 · story card £8 Sample price

Britain & Ireland · For loveCladdagh ringMade in Galway from about 1700Pendant from £28 · story card £8 Sample price

Britain & Ireland · For loveLuckenbooth broochScottish love token, V&A, about 1800Pendant from £28 · story card £8 Sample price

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Britain & Ireland · Against the darkRowan & red threadRobert Chambers, Popular Rhymes of Scotland, first edition 1826 (edition not checked page by page — To verify)Pendant from £28 · story card £8 Sample price

Britain & Ireland · For a happy homeSixpence in the shoe“Something old” rhyme in print, 1871Story card from £2.99 Sample price

Britain & Ireland · For a new jobDock labourer’s ticketHenry Stevens’s ticket, West India Docks, 1872Story card from £2.99 Sample price

Britain & Ireland · For a new jobHiring-fair tokenHardy’s Casterbridge hiring fair, 1874Story card from £2.99 Sample price

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Britain & Ireland · Against the darkHag stoneDorset hag stone, acquired by the Pitt Rivers Museum 1880–81 (1884.56.3)Pendant from £28 · story card £8 Sample price

Britain & Ireland · For safe travelsAcorn charmLondon curtain-pulls, Lovett collection, 1890–1916Pendant from £28 · story card £8 Sample price

Britain & Ireland · For a happy homeBrigid’s crossIrish folk custom; examples in the National MuseumPendant from £28 · story card £8 Sample price

We describe what each symbol has meant and how people used it, with sources. We don’t promise what it will do.