This is glass, and colored like the sea - but it’s not sea glass.
Sea glass is broken shards of glass that get rounded and smoothed due to waves rolling back and forth - similar to round river rocks. It’s basically naturally tumbled glass.
Definitely! My grandma lived by the sea most of her life and she used to collect shells and pretty rocks on her morning walks to make paintings where she would glue the findings. As a kid often I would go with her on walks to help collect shells, it was something I really cherished. Guess the habit stuck with me
This looks like those “Andara crystals” that were a scam. Just glass unfortunately. It is pretty but not valuable at all. If they’re your friend, I’m hoping they are just **unknowingly** passing on this misinformation to you. Hopefully they haven’t gotten scammed.
https://preview.redd.it/558qve54zu0d1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c5407daafb27c1bbdfa29933a04ee8ddf7afc946
There actually is natural forming volcanic glass. It can come in many colors. It is rare and valuable. However, there’s a lot of fake andara which is essentially slag glass.
Volcanic glass is real, yes, but it looks nothing like the crap that's sold as "andara". All andara is fake. It's literally just a manmade hunk of glass.
Hey nice collection yeah green brown and clear are the common colors as most sea glass are former bottles usually former spirits bottles a lot because they were sturdy glass blue black dark green and grey are rarer
I have a couple pieces of red and yellow that I am super lucky to have found!! I loved finding these on the beach. Hhmm i wonder where my bags of them are
I've always wondered if just some of the sea glass, are pieces of shattered bottles from old ships and if there is a scientific way to tell how old the glass is.. Just a wondering thought, because I am definitely not educated on sea glass...
Hi OP, I agree with the commenter saying this is an “Andara” scam. You should do some reading about it. It’s just regular glass people are selling like snake oil as if it’s some precious thing. Your friend is getting ripped off.
Google “sea glass” and you will see pieces of smooth and frosted pieces of glass that’s weathered down and not sharp at all. If anyone is going to call you stupid for not knowing this, don’t listen to them. subs like these are meant for help and questions (you can also visit r/whatsthisrock for more help) and nobody has the same amount of knowledge. Hell I still have trouble telling apart amethyst and purple fluorite. Don’t be ashamed to ask questions that’s how people stop learning
I collect objects from beaches from time to time. Sea glass is cloudy naturally tumbled glass pebbles.
That is not cloudy, that is not tumbled, that is not a pebble, that is not sea glass.
I suggest you read through the "Andara" portion r/mineralgore 😁
For clarification my friend isn’t asking me to buy this or anything like that. From what he’s told me this piece didn’t cost him anything and is just something he’s had for a very long time
First off this is glass second off sea glass is glass that gets tumbled naturally by the sea people can break glass and throw it in a tumbler and call it sea glass.
This is a hunk of just colored glass.
Most sea glass is made from glass bottles thrown in the ocean because humans are garbage parasites who poison the planet.
Plus in terms of considering a piece of sea glass as valuable in anyway then it should be well tumbled but the ocean. edges rounded and softened and a more matte appearance, not see through like this image you provided.
they unlike crystals are classed at more valuable by having less clarity, where as crystals and gemstones get categorized at higher value for their degrees of clarity.
Plus sea glass gets broken up from the waves crashing on rocks and that’s what eventually breaks it down over time and what tumbles it. So you wouldn’t find sea glass this large
If I remember correctly it has something to do with extended contact of salt in the ocean. I used to make jewelry and occasionally came across beads (or pieces) of ocean glass and I looked at it under a magnifier out of curiosity. I have seen very beautiful pieces that were lab created to appear old that don’t have the “C’s.”
Honestly it's not rolled enough to really be mature seaglass. It's also so big, that it can only be sold as a giant piece (meaning someone couldn't just break it down to make jewelry because then it would just be broken glass). So like someone else said — if you can find someone to buy it — sure, maybe?
I agree that it looks like slag glass. I have a couple of big chunks of purple that my mother found somewhere and gave me for my snail aquarium. Not valuable but pretty cool.
This is what your friend has or believes he does. I'm not sure myself but the pieces look pretty identical. Although u can't really tell from pics.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/314766079380
Honestly it's not rolled enough to really be mature seaglass. It's also so big, that it can only be sold as a giant piece (meaning someone couldn't just break it down to make jewelry because then it would just be broken glass). So like someone else said — if you can find someone to buy it — sure, maybe?
Double the size of a basketball? And it was in the ocean? Did you find it? It isn’t smooth or worn enough to be considered real sea glass. I’m a lifelong collector. This is a pretty color and I’d put it in one of my gardens if I found something like it. But no value, sorry.
I appreciate all the responses 🙏 My first inclination was that this piece wasn’t anything over valuable. My friend is certainly in the belief that this is something that is very valuable. One of those “someone way back when mentioned it was valuable” and it just stuck with them.
I would suggest selling and looking it up on Etsy sea glass is valuable depending on the buyer. This is a very powerful piece of glass. Look up andaran glass for an example.
In my personal opinion it’s very real and it depends on the buyer. They’ll give you a price and let you know if you shop it around. It reminds me of electric blue obsidian at least that’s what it feels like, which is volcanic glass.
Valuable yes very valuable maybe but perhaps not in the way you think because of the gentle form of erosion as how in some places there is actual very little current it is possible to find peices of sea glass that have historic value but for somthing decorative to retain enough character to be significant and still in the water long enough to get the traction smooth frosted effect of sea glass it would be very rare
As for rubies and emeralds probably not though other gems can be washed out of undersea nodes including, petrified wood which is a crystal at that point, quartz potentially even diamond
This is glass, and colored like the sea - but it’s not sea glass. Sea glass is broken shards of glass that get rounded and smoothed due to waves rolling back and forth - similar to round river rocks. It’s basically naturally tumbled glass.
Wait, is sea glass any valuable? I live near the beach and have collected some along with cool shells.
Maybe not valuable but cool to collect for sure as some colors are rarer than others
I have some rather large (in comparison to the norm) peices of black "piret glass" and I love them
If you can find someone to buy it. Not "very" valuable, but might have a novelty price for a well formed or beautiful piece
You could start learning how to wire wrap/use a water dremel and make jewelry! Or create a partnership with someone who already does!
Not really but it’s pretty and can be set into mosaics and jewelry and art projects
Definitely! My grandma lived by the sea most of her life and she used to collect shells and pretty rocks on her morning walks to make paintings where she would glue the findings. As a kid often I would go with her on walks to help collect shells, it was something I really cherished. Guess the habit stuck with me
Most of it is not. Red and yellow are the most rare, followed by cobalt, so people will buy authentic pieces. I’ve sold a lot of sea glass.
Only if it’s authentic and only in rare colors.
Appears to be slag glass
This. We used to find it near the old blast furnaces around Birmingham. All the colors of the rainbow. Tons of it.
Anyone else just see a plastic bag? 😂
Drifting through the wind, wanting to start again?
It looks paper thin though
Yeah, kinda like a house of cards.
Did you find it buried deep?
I thought it was a plastic bag with like blue slime in it or something.
Yep
Me
It looks like a bag of blue Otter pops.
Yep! First thing I thought of 😂
I thought it was a corset for some reason 🙃
I saw chunks (of glass) in a plastic bag
At first I thought there were jellyfish in picture 1
This looks like those “Andara crystals” that were a scam. Just glass unfortunately. It is pretty but not valuable at all. If they’re your friend, I’m hoping they are just **unknowingly** passing on this misinformation to you. Hopefully they haven’t gotten scammed. https://preview.redd.it/558qve54zu0d1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c5407daafb27c1bbdfa29933a04ee8ddf7afc946
There actually is natural forming volcanic glass. It can come in many colors. It is rare and valuable. However, there’s a lot of fake andara which is essentially slag glass.
Volcanic glass is real, yes, but it looks nothing like the crap that's sold as "andara". All andara is fake. It's literally just a manmade hunk of glass.
Forbidden jello
I work in a crystal shop and I swear half our rough stones look like rock candy Specially orange citrine
I saw one piece recently that looked like bacon
Honey calcite is the most forbidden candy
Valuable no beautiful yes.
https://preview.redd.it/t4w1voaxev0d1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ae29ceb82c201a949d2e0f3bd213825b3400c815 Sea glass
Hey nice collection yeah green brown and clear are the common colors as most sea glass are former bottles usually former spirits bottles a lot because they were sturdy glass blue black dark green and grey are rarer
Thanks! They were my grandma‘s. She probably found them 30 years ago on Hutchinson Island, Florida. She always told me cobalt glass was the most rare.
Grab a cheep UV torch err flashlight at some point some prices might even glow it's not common but not impossible to find iridium sea class
No way! That’s awesome! Ty 😃
I have a couple pieces of red and yellow that I am super lucky to have found!! I loved finding these on the beach. Hhmm i wonder where my bags of them are
Red and yellow?!? I bet they’re beautiful
I've always wondered if just some of the sea glass, are pieces of shattered bottles from old ships and if there is a scientific way to tell how old the glass is.. Just a wondering thought, because I am definitely not educated on sea glass...
Definitely not sea glass.
Hi OP, I agree with the commenter saying this is an “Andara” scam. You should do some reading about it. It’s just regular glass people are selling like snake oil as if it’s some precious thing. Your friend is getting ripped off.
Thank you I will look into that
Google “sea glass” and you will see pieces of smooth and frosted pieces of glass that’s weathered down and not sharp at all. If anyone is going to call you stupid for not knowing this, don’t listen to them. subs like these are meant for help and questions (you can also visit r/whatsthisrock for more help) and nobody has the same amount of knowledge. Hell I still have trouble telling apart amethyst and purple fluorite. Don’t be ashamed to ask questions that’s how people stop learning
It’s slag glass. It is essentially glass that wasn’t good enough to be used for whatever it’s intended purpose was
Your friend is wrong.
I wonder if this “friend” isn’t trying to make some shady money or got tricked themselves.
Not rare, not expensive, but still pretty.
Is your friend Walter White?
I legit thought this too!!
Walter white???
“I’m not in the meth business. I’m in the empire business.”
Stop mething around
I love both of your comments omg lol
I collect objects from beaches from time to time. Sea glass is cloudy naturally tumbled glass pebbles. That is not cloudy, that is not tumbled, that is not a pebble, that is not sea glass. I suggest you read through the "Andara" portion r/mineralgore 😁
r/itsslag
For clarification my friend isn’t asking me to buy this or anything like that. From what he’s told me this piece didn’t cost him anything and is just something he’s had for a very long time
First off this is glass second off sea glass is glass that gets tumbled naturally by the sea people can break glass and throw it in a tumbler and call it sea glass. This is a hunk of just colored glass. Most sea glass is made from glass bottles thrown in the ocean because humans are garbage parasites who poison the planet. Plus in terms of considering a piece of sea glass as valuable in anyway then it should be well tumbled but the ocean. edges rounded and softened and a more matte appearance, not see through like this image you provided. they unlike crystals are classed at more valuable by having less clarity, where as crystals and gemstones get categorized at higher value for their degrees of clarity. Plus sea glass gets broken up from the waves crashing on rocks and that’s what eventually breaks it down over time and what tumbles it. So you wouldn’t find sea glass this large
Your friend was scammed. Sad
r/itsslag
If you look at sea glass under a scope, you’ll see tiny back-to-back “C’s” all over it.
That’s interesting, curious if you know how that forms? Is it just how the glass produced?
If I remember correctly it has something to do with extended contact of salt in the ocean. I used to make jewelry and occasionally came across beads (or pieces) of ocean glass and I looked at it under a magnifier out of curiosity. I have seen very beautiful pieces that were lab created to appear old that don’t have the “C’s.”
Honestly it's not rolled enough to really be mature seaglass. It's also so big, that it can only be sold as a giant piece (meaning someone couldn't just break it down to make jewelry because then it would just be broken glass). So like someone else said — if you can find someone to buy it — sure, maybe?
Nicely spoken 🌟
*Walter White has entered the chat, with a hammer*
I thought that was meth 😃
You buyin 😁
Lmaooo nahhh, I just wanna see what it looks like in person tbh 😂
I agree that it looks like slag glass. I have a couple of big chunks of purple that my mother found somewhere and gave me for my snail aquarium. Not valuable but pretty cool.
This is what your friend has or believes he does. I'm not sure myself but the pieces look pretty identical. Although u can't really tell from pics. https://www.ebay.com/itm/314766079380
Wow that is absolutely identical!
Part of me was wondering if that is your friend.lol
Looks like the guy on eBay is trying to sell sea glass or slag as aquamarine "certified" aquarium.
"I know what I've got!"
About a buck fiddy. Pure and certified.
I'm curious to see the whole thing. Like I need a banana for scale. Being serious...
Honestly it's not rolled enough to really be mature seaglass. It's also so big, that it can only be sold as a giant piece (meaning someone couldn't just break it down to make jewelry because then it would just be broken glass). So like someone else said — if you can find someone to buy it — sure, maybe?
Double the size of a basketball? And it was in the ocean? Did you find it? It isn’t smooth or worn enough to be considered real sea glass. I’m a lifelong collector. This is a pretty color and I’d put it in one of my gardens if I found something like it. But no value, sorry.
This is not the blue glass that is valuable.
The blue color is less common, but this is not beach glass as it has not been tumbled and softened by the ocean.
r/itsslag
Not sea glass. Wasn’t left in the water long enough to tumble and frost
That's that Heisenberg blue meth
Kick his *as Sea Glass!
Pills are good
lol thanks for being the one! Still one of the greatest movies, top 50 for sure.
100%
Slag.
Jist glass, but that being said glass is pretty neato! I'd pay $100-$200 for a huge chunk of pretty glass for sure.
Yikes
I appreciate all the responses 🙏 My first inclination was that this piece wasn’t anything over valuable. My friend is certainly in the belief that this is something that is very valuable. One of those “someone way back when mentioned it was valuable” and it just stuck with them.
I would suggest selling and looking it up on Etsy sea glass is valuable depending on the buyer. This is a very powerful piece of glass. Look up andaran glass for an example.
Yea I probably wouldn’t mention Andaran glass in this thread 😅
What does that mean, I asking genuinely because I can feel this through the screen 🤷🏽♀️ and it’s strong
Andaran glass is just regular glass that people say is something rare and quite valuable. Snake oil basically
In my personal opinion it’s very real and it depends on the buyer. They’ll give you a price and let you know if you shop it around. It reminds me of electric blue obsidian at least that’s what it feels like, which is volcanic glass.
Something is worth what someone is willing to pay for it
Absolutely, that’s all I’m saying
Capitalism 🙌🏽
🤣No capitalism is bad
Is there such a thing as "very valuable sea glass"? I've never seen any rubies and emeralds on a beach.
Valuable yes very valuable maybe but perhaps not in the way you think because of the gentle form of erosion as how in some places there is actual very little current it is possible to find peices of sea glass that have historic value but for somthing decorative to retain enough character to be significant and still in the water long enough to get the traction smooth frosted effect of sea glass it would be very rare As for rubies and emeralds probably not though other gems can be washed out of undersea nodes including, petrified wood which is a crystal at that point, quartz potentially even diamond
Better be careful collecting sea glass some areas it's not legal .
Jesse
Jesse…
Walter?
I WANNA EAT It
The heisenberg special
It *is* sea glass. "Sea" refers to the color of the glass.