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Sea Glass is physically and chemically weathered Glass that is found on beaches and alongside bodies of salt water. Sea Glass begins as bottles and Glass which are perpetually tossed onto rocky and sandy shores by currents and waves. Sea Glass takes ten to forty years and sometimes as much as one hundred years to acquire it's characteristic textures, shapes and sometimes colour. They become broken and they are tumbled for many years until they have smoothed edges and a frosted appearance. Chemical changes caused by the seawater can cause pitting and other effects.
The Salish Sea is a bio rich 110,000 square km. inland Sea and coastal land area of British Columbia, Canada and Washington State, USA. It is named for it's aboriginal inhabitants, the Coast Salish peoples and known for it's keystone animals, the Southern resident Orca, Bald Eagle, Raven, Grizzly bear, Cougar ( Mountain Lion), Wolf, Sea Otter.
Your genuine Salish Sea Glass has been collected on various beaches in and around beautiful Victoria British Columbia. They are cleaned and sorted by colour and size etc. before used as components in various jewellery and decorative items.
All Salish Sea Glass Creations are hand made by Gina Nezil
Sea Glass Rarity
Rarer colours of Sea glass are pieces in which the colour of the glass has not been made or used commercially for many years. Some Glass will change colour due to chemical changes over time.
Most Rare - Unique pieces and colours that maintain a pattern or shape of the original source such as bottle stoppers, marbles, embossed glass, old glass tiles, multi colored glass from decorative pieces, beads, stained glass windows, etc.
Most Rare Colours are:
Dark purple, orange, pink, coral, deep yellow, red, black, opalized Sea glass ( milk glass that has aged to have an opalescent effect)
Rare - Cornflower blue, cobalt blue, turquoise, lavender, amethyst, pale yellow, teal.
Semi Rare - Milk glass (white opaque), light blue, olive green, light green, lime green, Sea foam green, Citron.
Easy to find Sea glass colours - ( white ( clear to frosted), brown, green.
Some Sea Glass sources include:
Brown - Beer, Whiskey, Bleach Bottles.
White or Clear - can come from anything from a soda bottle to a glass pane.
Cobalt Blue - Noxema, Vicksburg Vaporub jars, many medicines and also poisons were made from this glass.
Sea Foam Green - Coke bottles, wine bottles, rum bottles, window glass etc.
Lavender - Manganese in the glass caused it to turn purple over time.
Teal or Turquoise- Seltzer bottles, decorative glassware, insulators used in electric poles in the early 1900's.
Ice or Soft Blue is from soda bottles, medicine bottles, ink bottles and fruit jars from the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Pink - Often from depression Era plates.
Red - Often from old Schlitz beer bottles, car tail lights, dinnerware or nautical lights and fishing floats.
Red Antique Glass was given it's colour by adding gold oxide to a molten glass.
Jade and amber - Bottles for whiskey, medicine, spirits, and early bleach bottles.
Some antique Sea Glass " Treasures" can include marbles used as ballast on sailing ships to old stained glass and old glass beads. Sea Glass could also have originated from shipwrecks.
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