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<p>[QUOTE="Any Jewelry, post: 2090016, member: 2844"]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.</p><p><br /></p><p>As an aside, more recently the garnets in jewellery sold in souvenir shops in Czechoslovakia/Czechia were often glass, and still are.</p><p>So if you visit Czechia, only buy from quality shops which give a guarantee.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Any Jewelry, post: 2090016, member: 2844"]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.[/QUOTE]
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