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I spend most of my days beachcombing and searching for sea treasures to make beach-themed jewelry.

While searching for seashells on the beach in Ankaran, Slovenia, I was finding a lot of glass, ceramics, old coins, silverware, and other amazing 100+-year-old finds. With some research, I found out that I find so many amazing historic items because in the past (around 100 years ago), Italian ships would come here and dump trash in the sea. Over the years, with the waves and many storms, historic finds that are hidden under the mud in the sea wash up on the beach.

One of my proudest finds is a 200-year-old undamaged Maraschino bottle from the Austro-Hungarian Empire. After finding it, I returned it back home to the Cosmacendi Palace, where the maker of the bottle once lived, and which is now the Museum of Ancient Glass! It was not only an incredible find, but also a bottle without any proof that it even existed.

I love using a piece of history in my jewelry and other creations that make it more special and one of a kind. If you are interested in my jewelry, you can find it on my Etsy.

If you want to see my previous posts, click here, here, and here.

More info: Instagram | Etsy

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    All Of The Bottles Were Found On The Beach

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    La Petite Morte
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    4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Wow, I'm jealous! The closest I ever got was finding a perfect half sphere of a Japanese fishing float on Jewel Beach on Kodiak Island, Alaska. I wasn't even on Fishing Float Beach!! The islands currents are situated such that certain things end up on certain beaches around the island. Jewel Beach is covered in sea glass, Fossil Beach has... well, fossils and dinosaur bones, especially aquatic fossils. Fishing Float Beach has lots of glass fishing floats, there's one beach with white sand (all the sand/ dirt on the island is black, courtesy of volcanic eruptions from Mt. St. Helens), there's a beach that has fossilized wood/ plants, etc. In 60 m on Jewel Beach I filled up a 3 gallon bucket with sea glass, and I was being picky!

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    Dorothy Parker
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    4 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Sterling? The motif looks Egyptian, but most likely an American or European pattern.

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    200-Year-Old Cosmacendi Maraschino Bottle

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    Floortje Zeebregts
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    4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Strange. That seal from #7 and #10 seems to be from the same bottle type. Are there so many of these in the water

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    Dorothy Parker
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    4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Oh my. My favorite color, in sea glass or almost anything. With this design, it's too special.

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    Many Sea Pottery Pieces All Found On The Beach

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    Country Nana
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    4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That's it! I must go there for a vacation or two. Or three! I'm a fanatical beach comber!

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    Amazon QT
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    4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I want glass tiles made like this to use as a backsplash in my kitchen.

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    A Big Piece Of Very Rare Turquoise Sea Glass

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    Vincent Jay
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    4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This one is Chinese pottery. I wonder how it got to the beaches of Slovenia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Willow_Pattern

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    Colorful Treasures

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    4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    🎵Once I had a love and it was a gas Soon turned out had a heart of glass🎵

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