Garnet, birthstone for January. At Jewelry Television and JTV.com, we have blue garnets, green garnets, orange garnets, purple garnets, red garnets...do you? If not, add to your gemstone or jewelry collection today as we offer the best garnet loose gemstones and garnet jewelry prices to our JTV customers. Want to know more about the varieties of garnet? Read JTV's Learning Library collection of Garnet articles here.
2011 was a big year for garnet here at Jewelry Television, with many exciting firsts, such as Masasi Blue Garnet and Masasi Bordeaux Garnet (the blue exhibits a beautiful color change while the Bordeaux has a nice color shift), and we expect the 2012 will be just as impressive on the garnet front. In fact, we opened the New Year with a special collection of 6 untreated, rare garnets: JTV item number JANKIT0145. Included in the collection are Anthill garnet, Serengeti spessartite garnet, tsavorite garnet, Masasi blue color change garnet, Regal Rajasthan Rhodolite Garnet, Namibian demantoid garnet. Display your gemstones in the 4.25x 4.25x .75 inch Cherry Wood GemVue case included with the collection. Perfect as a presentation piece or gift box for gemstones or other small collectibles. This case suspends one or more objects in a polyurethane material. Here are the highpoints of the collection:
- The Ant Hill garnet is colored by Chromium which gives it a vivid, deep red that rivals top rubies. It is the reddest of all red garnets and the rarest. One of only 2 known species of garnet colored by chromium.
- Currently, the Green Dragon Mine is the single commercial mine for demantoid garnet in the world as of today. It is located in the dry Namibian desert and these demantoid are known for their flawlessness and pure color.
- Tanzanian Spessartite is perhaps the purest orange gemstone in the gem kingdom. It gets its color from Magnesium, a rarely occurring coloring agent in gemstones and gives these rare garnets their intense orange color.
- Rhodalite garnet comes in a range of deep red to rose colored shades of pink. It is a perennial favorite.
- Tsavorite is a green grossular garnet which hails from the border region of Kenya and Tanzania. It is known as one of the purest and prettiest green gemstones in the gem kingdom.
- Masasi Color Change garnet is a newcomer, recently discovered and brought to market by JTV this past year (2011). It has a dramatic and strong color change that rivals top alexandrite.
- All these rare garnets come with our premium Cherry wood magnetic display case for your collection and viewing pleasure. This is a rich, high end display case that is fitting for Jewelry Television's rare Exotic Garnet Collection.
