Sea
Glass
I had
an idea sitting at breakfast Saturday morning. My husband has collected sea
glass from the beach for years possibly decades. He has quite a nice little
collection of pieces of glass in various colors; you can check out one of his posts on the collection on his blog. He can date some of the glass
pieces by their color. You can tell what some things are from the color. Green
is wine, brown is beer, clear could be an old medicine bottle or a modern day
liquor bottle, light blue glass could be old Coca-Cola bottles dating back to
the 1920’s and dark blue was used for poison so if you find dark blue glass it
could date back to the 1950’s.
So I
asked him if he has any sea glass that he could spare. He thought about it and
said that all the glass he had was sentimental picked from Cornwall or our trip
from the Isle of Wight. Then I remembered I have all the lovely glass beads and
some of them are frosted like Neil’s sea glass.
Well,
it was frosted when I started working with them, but once my fingers ran around
the beads with the wire they were a bit shinier. I made several pairs in different colors,
shapes and patterns. I tried to imitate the glass in Neil’s collection. I
decided to release them by color and I made it a point not to use and blue
glass since I’ve released a lot of it recently.
I
think this color glass would be Coca-Cola bottles. I love this color bead;
they’re clear but have a slight blue tint to them. Two pair are oval shaped and
are wrapped one time with wire. The third pair are shaped slightly like barrels
an even have ridges although the ridges run horizontally (parallel with the wire) not vertically. The
barrel pair is wrapped three times with wire.
The
beads are all glass, the wire is all non-tarnish silver plated copper and the
ear fittings are silver plated as well. The barrel shaped pair hangs an inch and an eighth, the larger ovals (middle pair) hang three quarters of an inch and the smaller ovals hang exactly an inch.
£4.50
including UK shipping, $8.55 including US shipping.
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