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Fine garnets combine the most important virtues of gemstones:

Beauty, durability and rarity.

Red garnets have been used for jewellery purposes throughout the history of mankind and can be considered as being among the most important gemstones.

From archaeological excavations, the use of garnet gemstones can be traced back to prehistoric times.

In all epochs of cultural history, people have been fascinated by their unique combination of gemstone properties, which make them perfectly suitable for the use in varioustypes of jewellery.

Greek philosopher Theophrastus (372 – 287 BC) and famous Roman scholar Plinius (23 – 79 AD) praised the warm, red colour of garnet and established the classic name “carbunculus”, which refers to the red colour of glowing coal (lat. carbo).

Company History

The art and technique of facetting harder gemstones on horizontal cutting wheels was brought to Idar by a garnet cutter from Bohemia in the late eighteen hundreds.

The gem cutter Hermann Lind founded his lapidary workshop in 1923 under the name of HERMANN LIND II and was job cutting for Idar gem houses.

When one of these companies was not able to pay him money, he took a lot of rough garnets instead, cut it and offered it to gem dealers and jewellery makers in Pforzheim, the center for gold jewellery in Germany.

First business card of Hermann Lind II in the 1920's

Hermann Lind, founder of Hermann Lind II

Every since, the company HERMANN LIND II, has been specialized in cutting garnets and has developed a world wide reputation as THE garnet specialist.

Historic views of the company lapidary workshop and offices

Family Mansion and Offices in late 1930's

First company car, a VW Beatle, with company director and owner Helmut Lind , in the early 1950's

company offices and workshops in late 1960's

... 1970's

... and today

MANUFACTURE

Carefully selected material

We prepare all our rough material according to the specific needs of our customers.

Be it for standard calibrated sizes from 1.5mm round up or for larger sizes of fancy shapes and cutting styles.

Our expertise shows up in all our products.

craftmanship

100% of our material is handled with the professionalism and craftmanship it deserves in order to prepare the product that our customers can expect from us.

facetted cabochon or carving

Hermann Lind II is using specially designed diamond tools for cutting facetted stones as well as cabochons and carvings.

Industry Networking

The company Hermann Lind II has always recognized the importance of industry networking and has been a member of the Chamber of Commerce from the beginnings of the company in the first half of the 20th century until today.

Hermann Lind II has been a member of the Federal Association of the Precious Stones and Diamond Industry eV., Idar-Oberstein, Germany.

Dr. Thomas Lind, the present owner of Hermann Lind II, is a mineralogist by education, who received his diploma degree from Heidelberg University and his doctorate from Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz.

After joining the gemstone business of his family in 1983, he recognised the need of mutual understanding between gemstone industry and scientific gemmology.

Thomas has been a director of the International Colored Gemstone Association from 1999 to 2007 and has served as ICA Vice President from 2003-2007. He is currently serving as vice president of Sector A of CIBJO, the World Jewllery Confederation, which is in charge of preparing the further development and improvement of the CBJO Blue Books.

Thomas is also President of the German Gemmological Association.

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