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A Rainbow of Bottle Colors

Color is one of the more easy-to-describe attributes and important for identifying historic bottles.

Colorful blue glass pieces called Leland Blue Sones are found along the shores of Lake Michigan.

Beachcomber Alan Rammer loves sharing his vast beachcombing knowledge and his huge collection of glass fishing floats.

Lake Michigan’s vast historic past left industrial "railroad" marbles that we still find along its shores.

Underwater bottle digging is a labor of love, but the hard work is rewarded when you find a Codd bottle with the marble inside.

The facts that explain marbles found on beaches around the world.

Beads made from the channeled whelk and the quahog played an important role in the culture of indigenous peoples of northeast North America.

Christina Sawka from Reverse.Gem shares her love of Japanese maritime antiques, glass and pottery design, and history in this video.

Learn about jewelry from the Iron Age to Modern times found in the River Thames today in this video by Jason Sandy.

Learn about the kinds of pottery you can expect to find on the beaches in Scotland, and why your finds may look identical this video by Nicole Lind.

Can you believe that the birth of the United States of America began on the River Thames in London?

Malcolm Russell and Ed Bucknall scour the Thames for remnants of Londinium, the capital of Roman Britain and the precursor of London.

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