uncommon
beach glass
20-40 years of tumbling · orange is rarest
The tell
Look for the frosting, a fine sugary surface covered in tiny C-shaped chips, and for any curve, seam or lettering left from the bottle.
Orange is the rarest by a distance, then red, then black. Blue is uncommon and worth stopping for. Brown, green and white are beer, wine and everything else.
What it gets mistaken for
- quartz
- leland blue
- frankfort green
- porcelain
- plastic
The facts
- also called20 to 40 years of tumbling · orange is rarest
- agedecades old
- where it turns upany long-settled shoreline
- the field marksugary frosting with tiny C-shaped chips · quartz never frosts like that
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