Beachcombing Magazine Articles

Ultraviolet Sea Glass

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

Lavender Sea Glass

Authentic and intentionally made purple glass has been produced for hundreds of years.

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.

Sea Marbles: Holy Grail of the Beach

For sea glass hunters, there are few finds as exciting as the discovery of that perfectly round orb among the gravel, or the flash of color in the ...

Ah, Those English Multis

The glass we now call the “English multis” was borne of a great bottleworks business the little town of Seaham, England, population 20,000.

Cobalt Blue Sea Glass

It’s rare, and we whoop when we find it, but it’s not nearly so elusive as the red or pink or orange.

Birth Glass, Seeding the Beaches

My hope is that at the end of the day’s hunt, when we beachcombers open our treasure bags, that the glass we’ve discovered truly tells a narrative ...

Genuine vs. Fake Sea Glass

In the past several years as the popularity of glassing increased, and thus the plentiful-ness of sea and beach glass decreased, people have looked...

The Rarity Chart – Dissected

The sea glass color rarity chart was not conceived by one prolific beachcomber sorting through his hundred pounds of glass in all different colors,...

Sea Foam Sea Glass

Sea foam glass was not usually purposefully colored; it is a result of too much iron in the sand that was used to make the glass.

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