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<p>[QUOTE="evelyb30, post: 263608, member: 36"]That last shot makes it look like a B, but beyond that...dunno. What I want to know is why anyone would make a synthetic garnet when the real ones are everywhere in the Czech Republic to this day and it would have been cheaper to use a real one. Odds are it's a synthetic ruby or maybe even a real red spinel; just about all factories but the really high end ones used synthetic rubies and sapphires in Deco jewelry regularly. I'd run a tester over that and see where it beeps. If it's a garnet, the B&K could be a Prague manufacturer as easily as not, or maybe Lithuanian? The design on the sides is done in a method I associate with the Baltic Republics and places like Ukraine. The Poles mark the holy hobgoblins out of their pieces, so it's not Polish. </p><p><br /></p><p>NICE ring btw; I'd be too busy wearing one like that to sell it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="evelyb30, post: 263608, member: 36"]That last shot makes it look like a B, but beyond that...dunno. What I want to know is why anyone would make a synthetic garnet when the real ones are everywhere in the Czech Republic to this day and it would have been cheaper to use a real one. Odds are it's a synthetic ruby or maybe even a real red spinel; just about all factories but the really high end ones used synthetic rubies and sapphires in Deco jewelry regularly. I'd run a tester over that and see where it beeps. If it's a garnet, the B&K could be a Prague manufacturer as easily as not, or maybe Lithuanian? The design on the sides is done in a method I associate with the Baltic Republics and places like Ukraine. The Poles mark the holy hobgoblins out of their pieces, so it's not Polish. NICE ring btw; I'd be too busy wearing one like that to sell it.[/QUOTE]
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