Start the New Year with some estate garnet jewelry pieces. Since this is the birthstone for those born in January; what better time to buy yourself something new, especially if you didn’t get the pieces of jewelry you wanted from the holidays.
We recognize the garnet as the official birthstone for the month of January. This gemstone had been used extensively in jewelry manufacture as early as during the times of the Egyptians in 3100 B.C. You most likely associate the garnet with its red appearance, but this stone actually displays in a wide array of different […]
The garnet is the January birthstone. It is also a favorite of collectors because it comes in such a wide range of colors. The gorgeous gemstone has had a long history in the jewelry trade. It was a chosen adornment of ancient Egyptians and Romans. In the Middle Ages, this humble stone was thought to […]
Although jewelry wearers primarily associate a deep red color with the garnet, this silicate gem actually comes in a rainbow of hues. It is said that blue garnets do not exist, but there have recently been gem finds that feature a high quantity of vanadium, which causes a blue green coloration. Granted, this is not […]
