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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 462592, member: 2844&quot;]True. I collect Austro-Hungarian jewellery (what don&#039;t I collect<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/rolleyes.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":rolleyes:" unselectable="on" />), which also has a lot of garnets, for obvious reasons. But with Austro-Hungarian, garnets and garnet glass can be used in one and the same piece, just like real turquoise and turquoise glass, pearls and mop. It seems they mainly went for the colour. Sometimes lost gemstones were simply replaced with glass.</p><p>So when a new piece comes in I test every stone, if it isn&#039;t clearly glass.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here is one where the garnets are all true garnets, but the central &#039;pearl&#039; is mop, some of the smaller pearls are real, some not. All stones are original, they just made a mess of things.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/wink.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=";)" unselectable="on" /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]158801[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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