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I spend most of my days beachcombing and searching for sea treasures for making sea-themed jewelry. I am not only searching for seashells and corals, but also for rare sea glass and sea pottery.

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 in the past lived the maker of the bottle and 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 makes it more special and one of a kind. If you are interested in my jewelry, you can find it here!

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Tiny Seashells

Tiny Seashells

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200-Year-Old Cosmacendi Maraschino Bottle

200-Year-Old Cosmacendi Maraschino Bottle

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Deep Purple Is One Of The Rarest Sea Glass Colors

Deep Purple Is One Of The Rarest Sea Glass Colors

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Beautiful Perfume Bottle

Beautiful Perfume Bottle

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German Company Oberselters Mineral Water Bottle From 1860s

German Company Oberselters Mineral Water Bottle From 1860s

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DE Ray
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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That is a truly gorgeous design. Simple and functional, but quite a bit of detail obviously went into the manufacture.

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100+ Years Old Sea Pottery Finds

100+ Years Old Sea Pottery Finds

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All Pieces Were Found On The Beach

All Pieces Were Found On The Beach

The 3 different plates that I placed together, the cup with the initials AC, a saucer for the cup and a silver spoon with the initials BM.

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Reilly Beryll
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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Croissants are common food for mermaids. Made with magical properties that allow the bread to resist the water of the sea. Further proof that the mer exist!

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rhyan lumilay
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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

ohh my there's a croissant and coffee washed from the sea? Ohh men!

Id row
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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I almost missed that the doily design is a bunch of smiley faces.

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Victorian Art Glass Vase From The Second Half Of The 19th Century

Victorian Art Glass Vase From The Second Half Of The 19th Century

It has an applied trail of blue rigaree citrine glass trailing around the vase and lovely silver design of a branch with flowers, leaves and acorns.

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Cobalt Blue Bottle With A Moon And A Star

Cobalt Blue Bottle With A Moon And A Star

It was probably once used for powders.

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Alexandru Bucur
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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is definitely an apothecary bottle of some description, because, at the time, cobalt-blue bottles like this were typically used for poisonous substances. The star-and-crescent would suggest Turkey, but of course, it was a widely used symbol, specifically because it suggested "oriental-ness". For all we know, this bottle could have been made in down-town Graz...

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Found This Stunning Blue Piece The Other Day

Found This Stunning Blue Piece The Other Day

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The Bottle With Healing Water Made From The Melissa Herb

The Bottle With Healing Water Made From The Melissa Herb

This beautiful bottle, with the words "Melissa Dei C Scalzi" on one side and "Venezia" on the other, is the famous "l’Acqua di Melissa". I have contacted the so-called barefoot Carmelite Fathers of the Venetian Province and they have told me that this bottle was made in the early 1800s

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Glass Stamps From 200-Year-Old Maraschino Bottles

Glass Stamps From 200-Year-Old Maraschino Bottles

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Blue, Green, Aqua, Turquoise, Seafoam, Navy... So Many Shades Of The Rare Color Blue

Blue, Green, Aqua, Turquoise, Seafoam, Navy... So Many Shades Of The Rare Color Blue

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So Tiny, So Colorful, So Cute

So Tiny, So Colorful, So Cute

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Luigi Dejak Beer Bottle From The 19th Century

Luigi Dejak Beer Bottle From The 19th Century

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Alexandru Bucur
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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Pola, which is now in the next country... Still amazes me how diverse the old Austro-Hungarian Empire was... which is why it ever stood a chance in the modern day. Just before the war, in 1912-13, the House of Deputies had to be dissolved twice, because delegates of different ethnicities (which each spoke their own language as a point of pride and there were no translators) would start fighting on the floor of the chamber and pull all kinds of shenanigans to impede their opponents, such as the Czech Radicals showing up one day with a small steam engine attached to a whistle from a locomotive. It was said that the citizens of Vienna, who could attend the sessions, would consider it better than the circus...

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Old Pharmacy Bottles

Old Pharmacy Bottles

The number showed the amount of millilitres in the bottle

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150+ Years Old Stamp From A Luxardo Maraschino Bottle Zara

150+ Years Old Stamp From A Luxardo Maraschino Bottle Zara

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Vintage Nail Polish Bottle With A Little Bit Of The Original Nail Polish

Vintage Nail Polish Bottle With A Little Bit Of The Original Nail Polish

The liquid dried up but it still trapped inside.

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

I'm imagining like this lady on a cruise who is painting her nails and after a while just YEETS it into the ocean " That wasn't my colour"

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Half Of A French Plate From The 1860s

Half Of A French Plate From The 1860s

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Douglas Campbell
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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The style looks to be transfer English blue flow. Is it stamped 'fabriqué en France'?

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Bullet!

Bullet!

The 8×52mmR Mannlicher cartridge was first introduced in 1888 for the Mannlicher M1888 rifle. It was made in and also used by the Austro-Hungarian Empire from 1888 to 1890.

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Alexandru Bucur
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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Hah. I have one of those as well, from 1891 (and yes, that makes it pretty rare, because this kind of ammunition was theoretically superseded by the "M.1890 scharfe Patrone" 8X50R semi-smokeless round one year earlier, but obviously they kept producing them for at least a bit longer), found in the ditch of the "Alba Carolina" fortress in Alba Iulia. It's weird to think that, until 100 years ago, we would have been in the same country, to the extent that, when my great-grandfather fought the Italians in the Isonzo Campaign, one of the battles he took part in was that of Caporetto, which is now Kobarid in Slovenia...

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Sometimes Searching For Tiny Treasures Leads You To A Treasure Chest Full Of Gold

Sometimes Searching For Tiny Treasures Leads You To A Treasure Chest Full Of Gold

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Beautiful Texture On This Glass Bottle Bottom

Beautiful Texture On This Glass Bottle Bottom

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Surprise! I'm Engaged To The Beach

Surprise! I'm Engaged To The Beach

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theo james
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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

🎶the sailors say brandi you're a fine girl what a good wife you would be!🎶

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German Clay Mineral Water Bottles From 1860s

German Clay Mineral Water Bottles From 1860s

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Nadine Elizabeth Gibbons
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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I wonder if this is where the name alka seltzer comes from - the dry powder added to water to ease the stomach and sooth the head.

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Victorian Rummer Glass

Victorian Rummer Glass

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Alexandru Bucur
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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It's an interesting thing that we ended up calling objects from the late 19th century "Victorian" generically, even though here, in the ol' K.u.K. Empire, we had Emperor Franz Joseph at the time and queen Vicky was a ways away... But then again "Josephian" doesn't really roll off the tongue, so maybe it's for the best?

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Stunning Sea Glass Piece With The Number 150 On It

Stunning Sea Glass Piece With The Number 150 On It

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Kaisu Rei
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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Not only are your findings gorgeous but the photography is beautiful as well!

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This Blue Sea Glass Piece Reminds Me Of Bubble Wrap

This Blue Sea Glass Piece Reminds Me Of Bubble Wrap

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Embossing On The Seal Says: Romano Vlahov Zara

Embossing On The Seal Says: Romano Vlahov Zara

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Alexandru Bucur
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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Apparently, people in that area drank a lot of Marashino liquor back in the day...

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Collecting Beautiful Sea Glass For New Unique Pieces

Collecting Beautiful Sea Glass For New Unique Pieces

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Searching For Sea Glass Is Just Like Searching For Rare Sea Treasures

Searching For Sea Glass Is Just Like Searching For Rare Sea Treasures

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

Is it just me or does it kinda blend into the hand, and the middle one looks like a cut...?

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M Like Maristella - Beautiful Sea Pottery Piece

M Like Maristella - Beautiful Sea Pottery Piece

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Sophie Warner
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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Have you seen the work of a Scottish artist which was recently shown on Bored Panda (but now seems to have vanished, it was at "https://www.boredpanda.com/i-find-surf-tumbled-pottery-shards-on-the-beach-and-make-them-into-unique-pieces-of-artwork"), who turns shards of sea pottery into the inspiration & part of illustrations?

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Gorgeous Turquoise Sea Glass Piece

Gorgeous Turquoise Sea Glass Piece

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Janice Stohlman
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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

where do you beach comb? i do not think you are in the USA. i like to go to sanibel, florida to search for treasures. i live on an island called galveston, texas. we also have shells, but no treasures like you have found. thank you for sharing.

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