Silver teddy bear keychain with black bow

Silver teddy bear keychain with a black bow: what it hangs from

The bear does not clip onto anything by itself. Three parts sit above it: a split ring for the keys, a sprung lobster clasp for a bag handle, and a swivel joining the two of them. The small swivel sits between the clasp and the ring on the bear's head, so the bear can turn without the clasp turning with it. It is the part most easily missed in a photograph. Fittings differ from one shape to the next, and what a key chain is made of, across the range is laid out on the category page.

The head is a piece of its own

Seen from behind, the head and the body read as two separate castings. A small ring passes through the crown and carries the body below it, so the figure hangs from the head rather than from the clasp directly. The back of both pieces is plain metal, and the grid of empty settings is still visible there: the stones are only ever fixed on the side that shows.

Where the clear stones stop

Clear stones run across the crown, down the cheeks, along the arms and over the top of the legs, in more than one size, with the largest of them at the top of the head. Black stones are used in exactly two places: the bow, and the two oval soles that face forward once the bear is sitting. The ears, the eyes and the nose are black as well, but they are smooth surfaces rather than settings. That leaves the muzzle, rounded and polished, with a line of red enamel drawn under the nose for the mouth, the only colour anywhere on the piece.

The measurement, and what sits above it

The bear itself measures 6 cm excluding the attachment, and the ring and clasp add their own length above that. At that size it still closes inside a hand, which is the difference between a figure charm and a flat tag. Black and silver also sit easily against whatever it hangs on. If something soft would suit better, the plush rabbits, which stand 14 to 20 cm, work at a different scale entirely.