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The story of Czech garnets

Czech Garnet - small precious stone red as blood, full of mystery, passion and magic effects. Did you know that the Czech garnet has, among other garnets mined in many locations throughout the world, the same unique status as the Colombian emerald among the emeralds, or the ruby of Burmese among the rubies? If not, you should know that its properties are absolutely unique. The grinding of Czech garnets and the manufacture of garnet jewels has had a long-standing tradition in city of Turnov. The boom time of the mining, grinding and use of Czech garnets for goldsmith’s applications effectively started in Bohemia and Turnov region after 1762 when the Austrian empress Maria Theresa imposed a ban on their export from the Kingdom of Bohemia. At the time of the Czech National Revival, the Czech garnet became an attribute of Czech patriots and a mineralogical symbol of Bohemia. Thanks to the success of the goldsmiths of Turnov at the World Expo in Brussels in 1958, the Czech garnet returned to the contemporary artwork and began to write a modern history of the jewelry production in the country. Traditional producer of the original jewelry with Czech garnets is the Artistic Production Cooperative Granat Turnov. The Cooperative was founded in 1953. It is the owner of the Czech garnet mines, and a holder of the right for their mining.