Garnets

I'm always cutting, so there may be other stones available. Please feel free to inquire.

Trade members should contact me directly for wholesale pricing.


Spessartite Garnet 2.28ct., 7.48x7.48x5.22mm. Double-Diamond Round Brilliant (Gar304) $800
Gorgeous, fanta orange spess. Only a couple small inclusions to note, none of which are easily visible at arm's length -- very clean for spessartite. One hot stone.
Tanga Garnet 6.98ct., 10.68x12.73x7.28mm. Brilliant Oval. (Gar287) $700
Incredible Tanga garnet -- rich body color with lots of purplish red flash. Choice garnet.
Spessartite Garnet Cushion
Spessartite Garnet (Tanzania) 2.52ct., 6.49x8.33x5.5mm. Victoria Modified, Rectangular Cushion (Gar274) $882
Phenomenal reddish orange spessartite from my trip this summer; spessartite doesn't get much better than this. The only down side are some strings of tiny bubble inclusions that bisect the stone -- though you'd never see them unless the light is just so and you're looking.
Tsavorite Garnet Square Cushion
Tsavorite Garnet 1.6ct., 7.02x7.02x4.43mm. Square Cushion Brilliant (Gar273) $1200
Somehow this stone balances deep, rich green color with an amazing brightness & sparkle. There are some typical feathers as is common to green grossular, but they get completely lost in the lush color and flash. If I were to make a tsavorite ring for myself, this is the stone I'd want!
Spessartite Garnet Shield
Spessartite Garnet 2.15ct., 6.92x7.83x4.93mm. Custom Shield (Gar262) $500
Solid yellowish orange spessartite -- bright, flashy and alive with color.
Tsavorite Garnet
Tsavorite Garnet 2.01ct., 7.75x7.77x4.68mm. Custom Square Cushion (Gar247) $2210
Great looking cross between a round and a square cushion. Bright, open, flashy and very green. Eye clean stone with some typical garnet inclusions under magnification. Untreated.
Yellow Grossular Garnet (Lalatema Mts., TZ) 1.56ct., 6.51x6.51x4.49mm. Lace Square Cushion. (Gar268) $200
The Lace Square Cushion is a design I developed to take advantage of the brightness and sparkle possible in these lighter toned grossulars from Tanzania. The stone is lighter in person.
Mint Merelani Garnet
Merelani Mint Garnet 1.59ct., 7.1x7.08x4.69mm. Electrum Trilliant (Gar244) $650
Here's a true mint garnet -- not tsavorite, not pastel. This stone has some amazing pop and flash. The image here has more gray than the stone has in person. Untreated.
Tanga Garnet
Tanga Garnet 4.57ct., 6.8x14.03x4.5mm. Long Scissors Rectangle. (Gar218) $300
This is a very surprising garnet I picked up in Tanzania this past summer. It has an incredible red roll and flash. This one is worth a custom design… Red garnets like this are not treated -- this one is completely natural!
Mint Grossular Garnet
Mint Grossular Garnet (Lalatema Mts., Tanzania) 2.54ct., 5.7x10.83x4.5mm. Long Princess Rectangle. (Gar230) $200
This garnet represents the other colors which come from the Lolatema Mountains in Tanzania. It's a soft, pastel green color-wise, but there is nothing soft about the sparkle. It's an extremely bright stone -- just what you'd expect from grossular. There are a couple feathers in the stone that are not easily visilble face-up, but are obvious when looking at the stone from the reverse. This one is for a pendant or a collection; it's too delicate for a ring stone.
Tri-point Rose Brilliant
Cherry Malaya Garnet (Madagascar). 2.03ct, 8.27x8.27x4.74mm. Tri-point round brilliant. (Gar112) $140
Tri-point round brilliant. The picture here captures the flash of the stone.
Almandine Garnet
Almandine Garnet. 2.93ct, 8.76x8.76x4.63. Custom Old Mine Square. (Gar135) $120
This image is a little fuzzy -- this is a clean, classic garnet.
Madagascar Garnet
Garnet (Madagascar)(red). 1.10ct, 6.45x6.44x3.96mm. Round Brilliant. (Gar147) $80
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