Nice little parcel I threw together. 10 faceted stones and 5 pieces of rough. 32.35 cts of faceted stones. How I set this up was 7 stones weighing 24.55 carats.  Just over 3.5 carat average size.  Very high luster and not shallow cut.  In the photo of the 7 stones you can see the two more orange pink stones they change color from mostly orange inside under incandescent to more pinkish in natural sunlight.  They don’t change much under CFL bulbs like most garnets do.  I hate CFL bulbs for garnets and no one should ever call a garnet color change because of a CFL bulb.   The two orangy stones have a pick up response to a magnet.  The other stones are too heavy.  One of the stones the cushion in the three photo has no drag response and I cannot get an RI reading from the stone.  I bought that as pyrope.  The other two are mahenge but cut slightly shallow still very nice stones and I just threw these three stones in as a bonus to make it even sweeter.  Plus the rough mahenge is thrown in as well. All the garnets have an RI of 1.76 to 1.77.  Except the one I mentioned I couldn’t get a reading so it must be over 1.81?   Mostly you will see these garnets very over priced but if you shop hard and search the right places you can come up with some at the right price.  Here are some at the right price.  

21.2 cts of rough.