Identify Sea Glass

Found light green bottom piece with the word blood embossed. Anyone know what this piece is?

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Hi!

I notice no one has been able to help you out in identifying the writing on that piece of sea glass.

Without a photo, it is definitely going to be hard to guess. Green was used for beer bottles, wine bottles, and soda drinks as well as a few other types of bottles, so your question is covering a big range of possibilites.

However, if it indeed does have the word BLOOD embossed on it and it is a bottom of a bottle, you should be able to positively identify it. There are a number of books on bottle identification available.

They of course concentrate on collectors items but should have the bottle that your piece came from.

We would recommend Michael Polak's book, Warman's Bottles Field Guide. Known as the "Bottle King," Michael has a collection of over 3,000 bottles acquired over 30+ years. A well-established expert on identifying bottles, he has written six editions of the Antique Trader Bottles Identification and Price Guide and two editions of Antique Trader Bottle Field Guide.

A nice thing about this book is that it is packed with actual photos and shows clearly the details of the bottom lettering on many, many bottles.

So there's a good chance you could identify what you've found. It could be quite rare.

If it is a piece from a wine bottle for example from Italy, it will be harder to identify, as few books are written specifically about wine bottles. But this book is fairly inexpensive and definitely should be in every sea glass collector's library.

David and Lin at OdysseySeaGlass

Warman's Bottles Field Guide