The Raven

 Steampunk

Gothic

When I was working in St. Nicholas Church Museum, Bristol, many years ago. I came across a lovely embossed watch case like this with a raven on the cover. At the time, I couldn't afford the price, and when I could, the watch had been sold.

How do I know it was a raven, not a crow, or jackdaw, as they are in the same family? A raven has a distinctive curved beak with ripping apart its prey, and is far larger than the other birds in the group.

When we think of this group of birds, we see dark, foreboding birds, but also in the group is the  colourful jay