Four Claw Gold earrings set with large Garnets. The Garnet gemstones set in the above Four Claw 9ct Gold earrings are of Indian origin. India has been the main world source of this type of wine-red Garnet, the Almandine Garnet variety, for over a century. When the Bohemian gemstone mines producing the deep red Garnets that so bewitched Victorian England were somewhat depleted by the 1930s, it was to India Prague looked for Almandine Garnets good enough to pass for Bohemian in the tourist shops. The translucency, clarity and vivid red of the better grades of the Almandine Garnet of India has bewitched the world for the many decades since.
The gemstone mines of Bohemia, however, have very rarely produced a fine red Garnet of the size set in the above Four Claw Gold earrings, a 6mm round Bohemian Garnet being considered quite special.

In the 2000s the better grades of the Almandine Garnet of India have themselves become considerably more rare, especially in larger sizes, so that now, in the year 2025, a matching pair such as these 12mm x 10mm cut gemstones, of such high quality, of such translucency and clarity, is extremely difficult to source, even in India.
Now, in the year 2025, if one could find a matched pair of Almandine Garnets in this sort of size, itself unlikely, the gemstones would be murky, heavily included, quite simply lacking a vivid edge. The fine Garnet gemstones used here were mined and Jaipur-cut in the 1980s, old stock and now rare.