Look at all of this beautiful seaglass my Husband and I found yesterday! I have never really cared about picking up sea glass but yesterday the beach was covered in it! I found tons of old medicine bottle necks and even two whole bottles, which I assume are rare since I've never come across one before, in my 20 odd years of beach combing . We also found a nice size whelk shell, which are common for the area, but not so much the river.
The one smaller bottle is an aspirin bottle made by the Bayer company. Bayer stopped making glass bottles in 1978. The longer skinny bottle has to be much older since the neck is un-threaded. That means it was stopped with a cork in better days.
Pictured here, is a glass insulator. People collect these. I'm not sure what they were used for...
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| Actually, I looked at it again and it's REALLY thick. So prob not Heineken 24. :) |
There are even clubs for people who collect sea glass! The
North American Sea Glass Association has a grading scale for determining sea glass value. Interesting, if you're into that sort of thing. I think it's pretty cool! Apparently REAL sea glass is becoming rarer due to the manufacturing of plastics and discouragement of littering. This makes me consider throwing all my glass in the river for the future generations of beach combers...Is that bad? Long story short I think I have a new hobby, although I have been known to have a short attention span. <3
