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<p>[QUOTE="Any Jewelry, post: 314900, member: 2844"]Not really unusual for Bohemian garnet jewellery. I have a set like it, including earrings.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie86" alt=":sorry:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Bohemian garnets were already extremely popular on the European continent in the 18th century. So much so that empress Maria Theresia issued an export ban. Of course garnets still left the country, and remained popular until about 50 yrs ago.</p><p>There was a fashion for jet on the continent, but it was not nearly as huge as it was in Britain.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Any Jewelry, post: 314900, member: 2844"]Not really unusual for Bohemian garnet jewellery. I have a set like it, including earrings.:sorry: Bohemian garnets were already extremely popular on the European continent in the 18th century. So much so that empress Maria Theresia issued an export ban. Of course garnets still left the country, and remained popular until about 50 yrs ago. There was a fashion for jet on the continent, but it was not nearly as huge as it was in Britain.[/QUOTE]
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