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Red Sea Glass, Sea Glass Red, Red Beach Glass

How Rare is
Red Sea Glass?
Where Can I Find It?

Find out why red beach glass is so desirable and where it might be found. What makes the glass red? Even on a super glass beach, red is not common...


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Photos and information on red sea or beach glass:
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Red Beach Glass found by Carla
Whidbey Island, WA


Red sea glass (beach glass) is rare mainly because a very limited amount of red glass was ever mass produced; so not much red is found in comparison to most other colors and is comparatively quite rare sea glass.


Red Sea Glass
It follows that if you see someone selling sea glass, as on eBay, containing a large number of red glass pieces, it may actually be tumbled sea glass and not real beach glass.

If you're fortunate to find red beach glass, the rarity would also depend on how old it is and how worn it is. Naturally, it would seem that the more frosted it is, the older it would be.

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However, where there's a lot of wave action, a newer piece of red sea glass will look more tumbled and frosted than a much older piece on a calm shoreline..

One of the great jewelry quality pieces of red sea glass that I have is the nice crimson-to-red piece seen above in the first photo and below.   Because of the color gradation, it has the appearance of Amberina a two-toned glassware that was originally made from 1883 to about 1900). However, because of the thickness, my guess is that it was from a big old warning light off a ship.

I obtained this beautiful real beach glass from a friend, Carla, on Whidbey Island here in Washington.

Years ago, they actually used gold in the making of red glass to achieve the various hues of red. Different amounts of gold would give it a different hue of color. This was pretty expensive, so they tried using other metals like copper and other methods to achieve the color.

Modern methods use other metals because of the high price of gold.

Red glass has been used in car brake lights, warning lights on boats, lanterns, lamps, stained glass, some tableware but not much, and some Depression glass.

The first piece of red that I had a chance to see in someone's hands at the beach was a piece of very thick deep red, nicely-rounded glass found by Kelly on one of the beaches we frequent.

No doubt about it, sea glass collectors yearn to have red beach glass as part of their collections.


Here is a picture of some very small pieces of Amberina sea glass I found.

Note that they are not jewelry quality but I love the colors, so I'm hanging onto them.

See more in the Sea Glass Photographs

For more on the history behind sea glass, go to Sea Glass Origins


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