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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.

Blue Sea Glass

It’s rare, and we whoop when we find it, but blue sea glass is not nearly as elusive as 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 sea glass collecting increased, people have looked to create glass that mimics actual sea glass.

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,...