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A genuine cobalt blue sea glass piece with heavy pitting and dark patina beside a smooth, evenly frosted machine-tumbled cobalt piece.

How to Tell Real Sea Glass from Fake

How to identify genuine, ocean-tumbled sea glass by its edges, pitting, and patina, how machine-tumbled or fake sea glass is made, and why the difference matters for jewelry and mosaic...

How to Tell Real Sea Glass from Fake

How to identify genuine, ocean-tumbled sea glass by its edges, pitting, and patina, how machine-tumbled or fake sea glass is made, and why the difference matters for jewelry and mosaic...

What Is Tumbled Sea Glass?

What Is Tumbled Sea Glass?

How tumbled sea glass is made from recycled and recovered vintage glass, the grit-stage tumbling process, how it differs from genuine ocean-tumbled sea glass, and its best craft uses.

What Is Tumbled Sea Glass?

How tumbled sea glass is made from recycled and recovered vintage glass, the grit-stage tumbling process, how it differs from genuine ocean-tumbled sea glass, and its best craft uses.

Ten frosted sea glass pieces in cobalt, green, teal, brown and clear scattered on sand, some with embossed lettering

Genuine vs. Tumbled Sea Glass: What's the Difference and Which Should You Use

The practical differences between genuine sea glass and tumbled glass - what each is, how they behave in mosaic projects, and how to decide which one to order.

Genuine vs. Tumbled Sea Glass: What's the Difference and Which Should You Use

The practical differences between genuine sea glass and tumbled glass - what each is, how they behave in mosaic projects, and how to decide which one to order.

Vintage Pharmacy & Apothecary Bottles: Squibb and More

Vintage Pharmacy & Apothecary Bottles: Squibb and More

Discover the history behind Squibb, Listerine, Sloan's Liniment, and other pharmacy brands turning up as antique bottles and sea glass on NYC's historic shorelines.

Vintage Pharmacy & Apothecary Bottles: Squibb and More

Discover the history behind Squibb, Listerine, Sloan's Liniment, and other pharmacy brands turning up as antique bottles and sea glass on NYC's historic shorelines.

Frosted brown sea glass piece with embossed lettering resting in sand beside green and blue pieces

What Is Sea Glass?

A collector's guide to how genuine sea glass forms, how it differs from machine-tumbled glass, which colors are common versus rare, and where it's found.

What Is Sea Glass?

A collector's guide to how genuine sea glass forms, how it differs from machine-tumbled glass, which colors are common versus rare, and where it's found.

Underside of a vintage pale green Pluto Water bottle showing the embossed devil figure and the word Pluto

Pluto Water Bottles: History, Age, and What They're Worth Today

What Pluto Water was, how to date a bottle, and what actually drives its value among collectors today.

Pluto Water Bottles: History, Age, and What They're Worth Today

What Pluto Water was, how to date a bottle, and what actually drives its value among collectors today.