Hi everyone! I have a question for all you sea glass experts out there! There are so many different colors of sea glass and that got me wondering, what is the rarest color of sea glass?
Where I do my collecting on Prince Edward Island, Canada, red and orange are the rarest, closely followed by turquoise. We find quite a bit of black sea glass, probably from rum-running ships of long ago.
The rarest in Puerto Rico are red, pink, and deep purple. I think I have only found one piece of orange here and it may have even just been a light topaz. I find a lot of black sea glass here as well, probably for the same reason Anne!
I always thought sea glass only came from shattered bottles. Can sea glass come from the sea floor or only manmade items? I wonder if there is a way to tell how many years old sea glass is?
Black sea glass, when held up to the light, is usually green or amber brown. Black bottles were used during the rum running days to preserve liquor. Sea Glass is from bottles or dishware that was discarded from ships or into dumps many years ago.
A great resource for discovering "how old is sea glass" is Richard LaMotte's book: Pure Sea Glass. I call it my sea glass bible.
Red by far is the rarest colour here in Newfoundland..the yellows follow close...the blacks and cobalt blue are however not as rare as one would think!
