Sea Glass Types- How to Grade and Evaluate Sea Glass Quality and Rarity
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- Опубліковано 10 лип 2024
- How to identify different types of Sea Glass- How to Grade, Evaluate Quality and Rarity. See my web site: www.pnwbeachcombing.com for more information about sea glass.
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I miss hunting for sea glass!!!! (now live in NM...) My favorite piece I found in Nags Head 35 yrs ago. I was sitting in the dunes at the edge of the tide, watching my hubby surf cast. I turned my head and looked down and stared! there was a light purple hand blown half of a top of a vase, about 3" wide and 4" long, with bubbles in the glass. I just looked at it in amazement! lovely frosting on it and the color was just beautiful. Finding sea glass is the best part of sea glass. I was sad when WalMart had "sea glass" for sale...just tumbled in a rock tumbler, what a bummer... I never knew there were grades of sea glass, very interesting. I also found a light blue Mason jar bottom. I would love to go to Ft Bragg Glass beach in CA, tho they wont let you take any glass from it anymore as people were taking 5 gallon buckets full at a time.
my granny lives in Scotland and she lives near the beach where there is a TON of sea glass and she collects it and made a beautiful sea glass rose she just super glued it to a wooden board and made a rose it's on her wall rn and it's soooooo pretty
That is awesome. I'd love to see your granny's sea glass rose. It is probably beautiful. Her beach must be great to hunt for glass on. Tell me the closest town or name of the beach and maybe someday if my wife and I are able to visit Scotland we could visit that beach. Thank you for your response. Blessings!
Tim Blair I think it's torresdale or maybe it's torrisdale idk but thanks it's absolutely full of sea glass
Thanks for this great video. I live in the Caribbean (Puerto Rico) and I've found some reds, amber and black sea glass. Now I want to go back and see what else I find, it's an interesting hobby.
I'd love to look for black sea glass in your area. The Pacific Northwest in the U.S. has a relatively younger development history and thus less of a variety of sea glass. The black glass was from an older heritage of glass blowing in the 16th and 17th centuries. Thanks for the input!
Your videos are amazing and very informative. Thank you!
When I come across beach glass that is ruff I throw it back in the ocean so it will tumble again so someone else wil get a beautiful gem.
I agree.... I do the same over the last few years.
As do I!
Some of those green pieces may be uranium glass you can check them with a uv light and or a gieger counter
Great vid, usefull explanations and accurate classification. Thanks and Hi from France.
Excellent video!!
i should go about the beach now - fun video.
thanx for uploading ...
Beautiful, thanks.
Small pieces of glass were cut into beautiful jewelry
They are beautiful interior items
For the enviroment ,what you did was too much
That's great♥
I just started picking the lower Columbia and was amazed at what I have been finding. I’ve been finding a bit of China and wondering what it could have come from. Perhaps the old Paddle wheelers?
Looks like most of your sea glass is not finished being frosted yet, should throw back into the ocean!
Fred Saccavino yessssss
Or in the trash cuz that would be littering
İyi Kız u clearly don’t get it🤦🏼♂️
Amazing how even a thing as simple and enjoyable as sea glass can have insufferable snobs that say stupid stuff. I would use all of that in my sculptures as it transmits light much better than rounded marbles of white haze. I enjoy all the variations, all the steps on the ladder of how the glass evolved and to find examples. Clear bonfire will blow your mind. This is from a recent find of mine, as it happened, ua-cam.com/video/dqVJEraxTSQ/v-deo.html
Is light purple, close to white, any rare? I have a jellybean shaped piece of sea glass and it's awesome!
awesome! any shade of purple is rare and very difficult to find on the beach. When it comes to shades of blue... I mainly find the darker cobalt blue and the lighter shades of aqua on the beach. Your purple is very rare!
@@timblair3004 what about yellow?
@@brennansmith7648 yellow is also very rare. I find a few pieces now and then but only about one piece for every 300 to 500 pieces.
You can find brown and clear sea glass on the coast of North Carolina after a storm but not much other color.
I collect glass from the south Lake Michigan area in Indiana. I've actually found lots of heavily frosted pieces... Since its fresh water do you think it's just from wave action and that type of weathering?
The wave action definitely creates a weathering affect on the sea glass but it still is not the same leaching process that happens in salt water that produces the sought after frosted look. The following is a quote from my web page "pnwbeachcombing.com" see the "sea glass" page. "The frosting that covers the older sea glass is the most sought after quality that collectors seek. Frosting on a piece of sea glass can only occur in sea water and can not be replicated by artificial means. The saltwater itself plays an important chemical role in the development of frosting on a piece of sea glass. Glass is made from about 75 percent SILICA, or sand, 15 percent SODA and 10 percent LIME. Once exposed to saltwater, the glass undergoes a process of “hydration,” under which the soda and lime interact with the chemicals or higher PH level in the water, leaving that frosted or "pitted" surface craved by collectors. The pits or "frosting" are the result of a leaching process where the soda and lime are pulled out of the glass. The pits in the surface of the glass, give it a softened feel. The soda and lime also often react with minerals in the sea water, forming new mineral deposits on the surface that give the glass a "sparkling" appearance."
So, you see the fresh water may create a somewhat weathered or frosted look but the true process of leaching only happens in a salt water environment. Let me know if you have further questions.
I found an awesome light blue smooth pendant shaped piece of sea glass, I painted it with clear nail polish and polish it etc and it got rid of the frosting, I’m now wondering weather i should try and take it off and sea if I can get it back to being frosted. What do you think?
Emily Pearce You can just wash the frosting off. It’s a buildup of salt.
hello sir i think i just found a piece of black sea glass. ive collected minerals for 3 years now. never found apiece of sea glass. i live in Florida and was visiting my girlfriend in Massachusetts. im not 100% sure if its black sea glass. it doesnt look as old as most i see online. id love some tips on how to verify what color it is, this is the first piece ive ever found and id love to start collecting so much more sea glass.
Hold your piece up to the light or sun. If it is true sea glass it will glow with light coming through. in the 1600s and 1700s different types of whisky or beer came in darker glass. "Much of the "black glass," or very dark glass, that ends up as tumbled, frosted sea glass was originally from bottles containing fluids that could be damaged by exposure to sunlight. This was most important one hundred years ago before refrigeration existed and before the "sophisticated" preservatives that are now widely used." info borrowed from Odyssey sea glass web site. www.odysseyseaglass.com/black-sea-glass.html
Is there a certain rarity of uranium glass from North Beach? I've found a few pieces and just wondered if it was "more" special to collectors.
+maryhyphenkay absolutely! Uranium glass was a rare type of depression glass made years ago and finding it on the beach in a well worn, "frosted" state would be awesome. I'd say it is very rare. I've not found any yet.
+Tim Blair Thank you for your videos, you have helped me and my family find treasures that we would have walked over. Now I just need to figure out what beach tumbled agates and jasper look like. >_
+maryhyphenkay - awesome! If you want to find jasper... most beaches will have some. Look for the smooth red rocks that are quite easy to find. Also... the best beach up here in Washington State to find beach tumbled agates is at Ocean Shores and out on the Damon Point beach that sticks out into Grays Harbor. This peninsula is like a finger that catches most of the agates that are flushed out of the mountains. Look at my web site- www.pnwbeachcombing.com and you'll find a field report about Damon Point Beach along with the video that helps you find and identify the agates. Have a great time. My family coordinates the rental of a home out on the tip of the Ocean Shores peninsula. It's a great place to get away from it all!
I love the Ocean Shores area. I had heard about Damon Point for agates and set off to find it. Sadly, the weather was not on my side that day.
How do you clean it? Just soap and water? I have a bunch of sea glass from Redondo Beach.
I use tiny splash of floor cleaner. Take some plastic milk jugs, cut off the top and set 4 into the kitchen sink. Fill with water, rotating to the next jug, using one to fill the next in a cycle. If you do this right it helps for draining; Clamp the top of the jug with your hands, squeezing one side fairly tight, and tilt it that way. It forms a funnel trapping the glass but draining the jug. If it has sand, a refill and work the sand out. Dry them on cardboard
Is the bonfire beach glass something that is used in crafts? Or a desired piece? I have about 10 lbs of Hawaiian bonfire glass. No idea what to do with it, just collecting
If some of your bonfire glass is mixed in color it can produce a nice mixture in styling. It all depends on it's look. We wire wrap our sea glass into pendants and also create earrings. So, if your pieces can be utilized in an artistic way they can be very useful for jewelry production. Use your imagination and make something beautiful. Some of my bonfire pieces are rough and bubbly on the inside. Some are more beautiful than others. So, you have to use what you have but remember each piece is unique and can be made into something beautiful.
Tim Blair thanks for quick reply and the great advice. Do you have any other social media I can follow you on to support you?
A big portion of my pieces are too large for jewelry. Some the size of a my palm. Thinking about mounting them on driftwood as decorative pieces.
Faith C I would just leave the large pieces out on tables, desks, etc. to show off. It’s interesting.
I am a huge fan of bonfire seaglass! Do you have any videos of it?
The grey and clear bonfire glass as you call it is parts of tv screens
Who has the theBesT shards on EarTh ?
Hi!
interesting video
i ggot some sea glasses in my homecountry way back year 1997,
i'm thinking How much can i sell these jewelry grade stones if i have it embedded on a silver ring?
look on Etsy.com This web site has many pieces of sea glass for sale which are set in rings, as earrings or necklaces. A nice ring might bring $30.00 to $50.00. Sea glass wrapped in silver wire and placed on a sterling silver chain can bring $50.00 on etsy,com
I am so mad at myself for what I did. I had a beautiful silver ring I got from a farmers market in Nelson, B.C. just waiting for a stone or something to be set in it. I found a perfect-shaped piece of sea glass in a very pretty shade of green and pressed it in, without gluing and of course, lost it. How sad is that ?
what about grey glass? like dark grey?
Inthink thats like really rare but im not sure
I found on Deception pass wa, alot of brown ,clear green and a few blue that's all
yes... I was up there guiding a 5th and 6th grade class a few weeks ago. I did find a few sea glass pieces that I gave away to the teachers. My experience has been that the best sea glass beach in Washington State is up at Port Townsend and out on glass beach. Thanks for the comment.
Do you have sea glass from a broken mirror? And if so what does it look like?
All the sea glass pieces I have collected off the beach have been tumbled in the surf for several decades and have lost their jagged edges.They are primarily from jars, old bottles and pottery. I have never found any piece of glass that appeared to be from a mirror.
@@timblair3004 thanks for the reply! And cool videos!
On the top of my sea glass is clear and the bottom is green
Where can I sell the sea glass?
I heard red is the most expensive
Red is most rare.
I was told the red is often from headlights.
A lot of your beachglass is not "done", it needs to go back in to get polished a bit more.
That is why this video was made. I wanted to illustrate to sea glass collectors the different types and grades of sea glass that can be found on beaches. Some of these pieces in the video were from beaches that had very little wave action but sat in tidal lands where the tides would rise and fall but very little tumbling by the waves. This would certainly age the glass by leaching out the various chemicals imbedded with the silica to make glass. The wave action produces a frosting that is the primary characteristic that makes jewelry quality sea glass so beautiful. Thanks for the comment.
9:17 you spell orange wrong
This is broken glass? Collecting broken glass? Hmmm. Well to each their own...... at least the kids wont get their feet cut up.
This is beach processed old glass (60+ years old) that has now become Jewelry quality gems that are highly sought after and collectable. We use our pieces to make necklaces, earrings and bracelets. Look on etsy.com and view sea glass jewelry. It is quite beautiful and can be expensive.
If you see no beauty in washed-up glass, you have no class. I love 💗 finding marbles, and in Nova Scotia, Cape Breton Island at least, there are a lot.
You may want to fact check yourself. A lot of this information is incorrect.