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Beachcomber Interview: Fiona Dart

Fiona Dart has an extensive and enviable stash of sea glass and has been a serious collector for more than 20 years.

A Buying Guide for the Sea Glass Jewelry Consumer

Being an educated buyer is always a good idea and buying sea glass jewelry is no exception.

Love Floats

Finding messages in bottles open windows into the lives of people I never could have met any other way.

Getting to the Bottom of It: Shard Identification of Bottle Bottoms

Finding a section of a bottle base makes learning about the original vessel much easier than finding a side wall of a bottle.

Aqua Sea Glass

Aqua colored glass is one of the most popular of the sea glass colors.

Sea Glass Wire Wrap Tutorial

Wire wrapping sea glass is one of the easiest places to start creating jewelry.

The Codd Neck Bottle

The Codd marble bottle was born from the need to keep carbonated drinks from going "flat." Earlier and original Codd bottles, and the marbles foun...

Glassification: Categorizing Sea Glass

There’s glass. And then there’s sea glass. And just as these are considered—certainly to the sea glass lover—two completely separate entities, so t...

Ultraviolet Sea Glass

While every piece of beach glass is special, something magical happens when you find a piece that glows.

The Ever-Elusive Red Sea Glass

Many collectors have admitted to making unbridled yelps or screams when they found their first piece of red.

Red Sea Glass

Red glass of some sort has been produced almost since the time that glassmaking began.

The Glass Floats

It is extremely unlikely that you will find a genuine glass fishing float along most of the world’s shorelines. But that doesn't stop us from looking.