Sea Glass Spain - Nova Icaria Beach, Barcelona
by Megan LaVogue
(Florida, United States)
Nova Icaria – Sea Glass
July 13, 2009 - Barcelona's beach near Port Olympic... Nova Icaria might be the name.
Great amounts of sea glass...most too small for jewelry, but still found handfuls of tiny, small and medium sized pieces in less than an hour.
Thanks for this site- it helped me know to try the beach in Barcelona while I was there, and I am glad I did!
If you like, I will post a photo of some of my findings.
How would you rate this beach for sea glass?: Excellent (16+ jewelry grade pcs. found per hour)
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July 13, 2009
Hi Megan,
Thanks for your appreciated contributions to the beach list. It sounds like you had some fun there!
Everyone would love to see photos. If you would like, send them to us and we will add them to your comments. For the time being, we will wait to post your comments until we hear back from you on the photos.
Thanks again,
David and Lin
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July 14, 2009
Hi David and Lin
Attached are photos of my finds... went twice for a total of about 90 minutes and I found so much!
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1 - Can you or your readers help me identify what the pieces with wire inside are from?
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2 - And the "marble", and the piece of terra cotta with blue on it? (I saw that you and Lin found similar pieces near your home!)
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3 - Also, what color would you say the rose/salmon pieces could be classified as?
Thanks- keep stooping!
Megan
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July 14, 2009
We're so glad you had a good time and were delighted with your experiences and seeing your photos. Here's our comments on your questions:
1 – The sea glass with wire probably was sheet glass containing wire mesh embedded between the two faces to prevent shattering in the event of breakage.
It's also called safety glass, but that's a confusing term, as there are other kinds of safety that don't have wire in them.
2 - Here's a wonderful link for learning about marbles.
http://www.akronmarbles.com
We have some cat-eyes, which if I remember rightly date from mid-1900s, and then we have a few from earlier than that. The older marbles that we have are are opaque, not see-through; have a white background; one with a blue swirl and one that is with a light green background with a darker green swirl through it.
Maybe some readers will pitch in on the terra cotta shards (beach pottery, earthenware shards).
3- As far as the color, I would call it a light coral/salmon, looking at the color chart.
However, in natural light, it could be quite different.
Thanks again for the comments and photos and the excellent report,
David and Lin Schneider
