Featured 900 Silver Garnet Ring Question

Hi All, I got this garnet ring in a lot and I was hoping someone may know where and when it is from. The stones are garnets and the mark is very hard to photograph. On the left is an "A" - capital sans serif, next is "900" in a rectangle and on the right is "ARTIA" - capital sans serif.

I Googled and found some vague references to Artia and Czechoslovakia but nothing concrete.

If anyone has any ideas I would be very grateful!

 

LOVE IT !!! ... Joy.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artia_(publisher)

 

I think it's fabulous and it's my birthstone too!

 

The garnets appear to be very high quality. I believe these to be Madagascan garnets, which reflect as RED rather than amber or brown.

 

Since the piece has pyrope/Bohemian garnet and made in what is now the Czech Republic,I doubt they came from Africa.

 

Nope, definitely Artia. I know the photo stinks but with a loupe that is what it says

 

Well, heck, no wonder I couldn’t find anything about them when searching for silver and garnet jewelry. Who know a publisher exported periodicals, music, records, gramophones, works of art, postage stamps, coins, teaching aids, antiquities, Bohemian garnets, cartographic products, silver costume jewellery, folk art, and ... musical instruments.

Thank you Holly!

 

Yep, garnet is my birth stone too

 

Agree. Bohemia is probably the most famous pyrope garnet region in the world, they have no reason to import from Madagascar or anywhere else. And I doubt they would have been able to during the Cold War era. The only pyropes they could import were Russian ones, but why would they.

As an aside, more recently the garnets in jewellery sold in souvenir shops in Czechoslovakia/Czechia were often glass, and still are.
So if you visit Czechia, only buy from quality shops which give a guarantee.

 

Even old garnet jewellery can have a few glass stones in it. Jablonec did that too. Those look spot on for Bohemia.

 

I also have antique Austro-Hungarian jewellery with glass turquoises among the real ones as well as the occasional garnet glass among the garnets. Sometimes replacements, but also made that way originally. In those cases colour symbolism was more important than genuine stones. They just used what they could find in the red or blue box.

 

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