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Green Sea Glass Pendant - Natural Devonshire Sea Glass

£110.00
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Green Sea Glass Pendant - Natural Devonshire Sea Glass

£110.00

This beautiful hand crafted sea glass necklace features an intriguingly shaped glowing green piece of glass with a reticulated bail evoking the rippling surface of the sea.

Capturing the essence of the sea, it’s the perfect accessory for wild swimmers, surfers and sea lovers alike. Each piece of seaglass is carefully selected and crafted, showcasing its unique shape and colour with textured sterling silver, reminiscent of bubbling waters and rocky shores.

The pendant not only serves as a stunning piece of jewellery but also as a token of the ocean's beauty, allowing wearers to carry a piece of the coast with them wherever they go. Its durable design ensures that it withstands the adventures of both water and land, making it an ideal companion for those who cherish the wild and untamed nature of the sea.

✦Green sea glass set in sterling silver, collected in Devon.

✦Choose your chain length (18” delicate more suited to women, 20/22” chunkier could suit men or women depending on your size

Glowing Kelly green is one of the most common colours to find and is an endlessly appealing shade. It was a mass produced colour for bottles during the second have of the 20th century, by manufacturers including 7up, Sprite, Heineken and Schweppes. It was not used so much prior to the 1950s so most pieces will date from the late 1900s. This colour was created by adding copper and iron to the molten glass mix, giving a range of green tones from rich to pastel depending on the thickness of the shard.

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This beautiful hand crafted sea glass necklace features an intriguingly shaped glowing green piece of glass with a reticulated bail evoking the rippling surface of the sea.

Capturing the essence of the sea, it’s the perfect accessory for wild swimmers, surfers and sea lovers alike. Each piece of seaglass is carefully selected and crafted, showcasing its unique shape and colour with textured sterling silver, reminiscent of bubbling waters and rocky shores.

The pendant not only serves as a stunning piece of jewellery but also as a token of the ocean's beauty, allowing wearers to carry a piece of the coast with them wherever they go. Its durable design ensures that it withstands the adventures of both water and land, making it an ideal companion for those who cherish the wild and untamed nature of the sea.

✦Green sea glass set in sterling silver, collected in Devon.

✦Choose your chain length (18” delicate more suited to women, 20/22” chunkier could suit men or women depending on your size

Glowing Kelly green is one of the most common colours to find and is an endlessly appealing shade. It was a mass produced colour for bottles during the second have of the 20th century, by manufacturers including 7up, Sprite, Heineken and Schweppes. It was not used so much prior to the 1950s so most pieces will date from the late 1900s. This colour was created by adding copper and iron to the molten glass mix, giving a range of green tones from rich to pastel depending on the thickness of the shard.

Ships in 2-3 working days.

  • Sea glass was once made from sand itself, mixed with soda and lime to produce glass. Created and then discarded by man, weathered once more by Mother Nature, its sharp edges rounded and surface etched by the salt water, finally washing back up on sandy shores as beautiful coloured sea glass jewels. Sea glass is becoming an increasingly rare treasure as less glass bottles are produced in a more limited colour range and recycling has increased. The majority of sea glass was originally vessels used by our ancestors then cast into the oceans.

  • Sea glass takes 50-100 years to form, and even older pieces can be discovered in historic sites. Strong movement of the tides and waves across rough sand and stone conditions the sharp edges of the glass fragments, and prolonged exposure to salt water corrodes the surface giving the beautiful frosted patina of weathered sea glass.

    The frosted surface of the sea glass is created over many decades by a process called hydration. The hydrogen in water replaces the sodium ions (soda) in the glass creating sodium hydroxide, which is then leached from the surface of the glass, beginning the process of corrosion.

    The recognisable c shaped pattern on the surface is due to the hydration process extracting small circular shapes, and is a great tell tale for old glass, as well as verifying pure sea glass from imitation.

  • Prior to the early 1900s glass containers were blown by hand, until the birth of the automated glass bottle machines. By the 1960s plastic and metal containers had become so successful that the glass industry was impacted and production severely reduced, beginning the decline of sea glass.

    Less common colours are primarily from before the 20th century, including red, yellow, turquoise, teal, black and citron, and most are treasured by sea glass hunters. It also provides valuable information about the possible age of the piece - most rugged black glass dates to pre mid-1800s.

    Yellow green ‘Vaseline glass’ could be re 1930, and ribbed soft green pieces common to Coca Cola bottles 1915-1970. Cornflower blue could be a milk of magnesia bottle from early to mid 1900s.

    Extremely rare colours: Orange, red turquoise, yellow, black, teal, grey

    Rare colours: Pink, aqua, cornflower blue, cobalt blue, opaque white, citron, purple

    Uncommon colours: Soft green, soft blue, forest green, lime green, golden amber, amber, jade

    Common colours: Brown, white, kelly green

  • Making pieces of jewellery for you to wear from the sea glass that I have collected myself, from hours of scouring and sifting through sand and pebbles whilst listening to the crash of the waves on the shore and the salty wind in my hair is the most exhilarating process for me as a jeweller.

    The journey from discovery to making means that whilst I work at the jewellery bench to create these individual pieces, I remember the place I found each piece of glass, the colour of the ocean, the feeling of the sun, the memories from that day. I hope you find joy in your own memories of the sea as you wear your ocean jewel.

    In collecting these sea glass miracles and working them by hand into jewellery, they are imbued with the power of the ocean that made them and the possibility of man and nature intertwined, to be carried by you everyday as you are adorned by the jewels of the sea itself.

  • Made to be worn by you in the sea and out your jewellery is easy to look after. You can use the included polishing cloth to buff the silver setting, or clean the whole pendant in warm water and soap. Antiqued silver won’t need any polishing as that would remove the finish.

    The sea glass itself needs no special treatment, but if you like you can rub in a drop of olive oil to bring out the colour, or leave it as it is to enjoy to sea frosted patina.

  • Your sea jewellery will arrive in a branded box complete with polishing cloths and care instructions ready to be gifted. To include a message just send an email with your order number and message.

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