My parents began giving me antique jewelry when I was a girl. Our family had a friend who was an antiques dealer, and Mrs. Carlson's store had a pirate's booty of Victorian seed-pearl and garnet ...

Some buyers are now looking more carefully at semi-precious stones as potential alternatives, and this is an increasing trend. Gems such as aquamarine, amethyst, moonstone, garnet and turquoise ...

TV9 Rewind: Rare garnet jewelry collection makes stop in Cedar Rapids. One of the pieces included a monstrance from Saint Nicholas Church in Prague that hadn’t been displayed publicly since 1895.