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Message:: [QUOTE="SBSVC, post: 279655, member: 136"]I have a decent sized collection of beach glass, almost all of it gathered when I was a kid. My family had a house at the beach, and we spent the entire summer there every year, from the day school let out until Labor Day. I remember very clearly that during the summer of 1969, it rained every single day. Wet days at the beach aren't necessarily much fun, but my friend Eileen, who lived "down the beach" a ways, and I spent that summer searching for beach glass. We'd walk miles one way, turn around, walk back, and go another mile or two the other way. In 1969 "red" glass was the real prize (we never found any) with "blue" (think Noxema jars!) in 2nd place. From there, it was greens, browns, & clear, in descending order of desirability. Anyway, there was a middle-aged lady who lived down the beach, and she fancied herself a true expert in beach glass. (We were just kids, so we listened to her...)Every time we ran into her (she was always out searching, too, so we saw her often) she'd demand to see what we'd found. She would paw thru our buckets, pulling pieces out and throwing them back into the surf. "Too big!" she'd declare, or "Too sharp!" or "Too clear!" She never took any of our finds for herself, but she certainly taught us what "good" sea glass was "supposed" to be! The pieces I have to this day are not minuscule, but they are certainly not large (or sharp... or clear) either. You can see a little of it in this photo, which I posted in a different thread last month (in the short jar on the bottom shelf, in front of the setter):[ATTACH=full]89149[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]

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