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Red Sea Glass is a Rare Beach Find

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

Find out why red beach glass is so desirable, why it is a unique beach gift, and what makes the glass red?

Even on a super glass beach, red is not common. BUT - not impossible!

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Red sea glass (beach glass) is rare mainly because a very limited amount of red glass was ever mass produced.

As a result, not much red is found in comparison to most other colors of beach finds and is comparatively quite rare sea glass.

If you love combing the beach for sea glass try Jamaica and The Dominican Republic. The beaches are beautiful and there is so much to explore and do. Hotels in Dominican Republic are exquisite and affordable. Plan your Jamaica vacation packages now. These destinations are great places to start or add to your sea glass collection!

Red Sea Glass

Red beach glass
It follows that if you see someone selling sea glass - such as on eBay - containing a large number of red glass pieces, it is likely to be tumbled sea glass and not real beach glass.

If you're fortunate enough 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.

Small Red Sea Glass Pieces

However, where there'sa lot of wave action, a newer piece of red seaglass 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Because of the color gradation, it has the appearance of Amberina, a two-toned glassware that was originally made from1883 to about 1900.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 the State of Washington, Northwest USA.

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.

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