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Silver Garnet Rings

Garnets take their name from the Ancient Roman designation granus, a Latin appellation identified with the mythologically significant pomegranate, whose deep red seeds are evocative of the same crimson hue.. Just as Persephone ate pomegranate seeds, ensuring that she would come back to her husband each winter, the giver of a garnet ring vows to return. From this association, garnet jewelry was long believed to ensure reunion One might give a garnet ring to a dearest friend symbolizing your hope to be together again soon, or as the pledge of a soldier to his lady love to return home to her waiting arms. A silver garnet ring is no mere pretty thing, but an oath of genuine devotion. Read more.

The Victorians popularized garnet jewelry, with their Valentine redness and inimitable air of true romance. Particularly rose-cut red garnets from Bohemia encrusted pendants, earrings and lavish rings. A sentimental covenant between sisters or closest friends, or the vow of lovers may be sealed with a silver garnet ring as in the nineteenth century. Feminine and bright, a silver garnet ring is a loving twinkle of warmth catching the light from its place on her finger. Set in the intricate style of bygone Victorian days when ladies wore bustled skirts and carried parasols or showcased in a sleek band needing no engraving or side stones to distract from its clarity and vividness, a garnet gleams true.

Imagine the sheen of tears brightening her eyes as she opens a velvet box, nestled in which she finds the most perfect silver garnet ring….red as a rose. Suddenly, she no longer sees the clutter of bills on the counter or dishes in the sink, but is transported for the moment to a more gracious time, a room with velvet curtains and silken cushions, the air perfumed with blossoms and the gentle trill of a harp being played in the corner. Everything seems finer, lovelier, timeless as she receives with modest dignity this token of love and esteem, this vow to be together, to reunite swiftly when parted by circumstance, to be together always.

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