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
