Photos and information on red sea or beach glass:  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.  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. Red Sea Glass |
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 Because of the color gradation, it has the appearance of Amberina a two-toned glassware that was originally made from 1883 to about 1900).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.
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 PhotographsFor more on the history behind sea glass, go to Sea Glass Origins
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