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Sea Glass Rarity Chart - Rare Sea Glass

What sea glass or beach glass colors are the rarest? Here you'll find an illustrated list of the rarity of the various colors:

sea glass color wheel rarity chart

Rarest of the Rare Sea Glass Colors
Rare Sea Glass Colors
Not So Easy to Find Colors
Easy to Find
Links to Individual Rare Color Pages

(For a close look at sea glass color identification, go to the Sea Glass Color Chart)

Rarity Of Colors

I'm going to list the rarity of colors based upon our own collection (which is a lot of sea glass collected over the years).

sea glass rarity chart

Keep in mind what I said about the color rarity being different depending on the geographical area. (For a discussion on origins of the colors in sea glass, go to How is sea glass made?)

Sea Glass - Rarity Chart Below Shows Relative Rarity of Colors

Most of our sea glass has been collected on the beaches of
the Strait of Juan de Fuca in Washington

Northern California
The Chesapeake Bay in Maryland
Southeastern Lake Erie
Northern Peru, South America.

Friends and family have helped contribute a few nice pieces to our collection.

Here goes!

Rarest of the rare sea glass colors:

Deep Purple	Deep Yellow	Orange
Red	Black	Pink
Peach

Rare sea glass colors:

Pale Yellow	Turquoise	Teal
Cornflower Blue	Amethyst/ lavender	Cobalt Blue
Aquamarine

Not so easy to find:

Milk glass/ Jadite/Jadeite	Citron	Light blue
Olive green	Light green (also called seafoam)	Bright lime green
Light amber or honey browns

Easy to find:

Green

Brown

White

I have also found colors that don't fit an exact color. For example, David found one that the best way to describe it is a smoky dark gray color.

sea glass rarity chart

Once again, which color is more rare does depend on the beach or even the state or country you're in. One area will have some of the rarer colors as more common or vice versa.

For example on our local beach we find a lot of cobalt blue, so it is not very rare. On other beaches it may be among the rarest of colors.

However, this sea glass rarity chart in general is pretty accurate. Feel free to make comments on our forums pages or below in the Facebook comments.

Note also that the above colors don't represent the wide array of hues or tints that are found in sea glass. So find the closest on this color rarity chart and you'll get an idea of about how rare it is.

Next, see these pages on rare sea glass colors:

Black Sea Glass, Black Beach Glass
On this page, you'll find out about: What is Black Sea Glass? Is it Rare? Is it Hard to Find? The Making of Black Glass for Black Glass Merchandise

Yellow and Orange Sea Glass Colors
Among the rarest colors, yellow and orange sea glass is highly prized by sea glass collectors and artists.

Red Sea Glass is a Rare Beach Find
Why is it hard to find? How can I find it? Here, we will focus on finding rare beach glass - why certain beaches have the ...

Orange Sea Glass
Orange sea glass - it is rare? Check here for photos and information on orange and other rare sea glass colors.

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