rare
leland blue
iron-smelting slag
The tell
Glassy blue-grey, often shot through with bubbles or frozen froth. It is not a rock. It is iron-smelting waste from the 1870s.
Man-made, and that is the appeal rather than a mark against it. Leland and Fishtown are where it comes from, and it is finite: nobody is making any more.
What it gets mistaken for
- frankfort green
- sea glass
- basalt
- slag glass
The facts
- also callediron-smelting slag
- agec. 1870s
- where it turns upLeland & Fishtown, Leelanau Co.
- on the chartrare · 250 stickers ever
Put it on the shelf
Every stone on this chart is drawn and kiss-cut at three inches. The rarer the stone, the fewer exist: only 250 leland blue will ever be printed, then the run is retired.
10% of every order goes to the Roscommon County Animal Shelter.