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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.

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All Of The Bottles Were Found On The Beach

All Of The Bottles Were Found On The Beach

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La Petite Morte
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3 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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A Star That Fell From The Sky Into The Ocean

A Star That Fell From The Sky Into The Ocean

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Tiny Pottery Pieces

Tiny Pottery Pieces

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Spoon Found On The Beach

Spoon Found On The Beach

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Dorothy Parker
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3 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

200-Year-Old Cosmacendi Maraschino Bottle

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Floortje Zeebregts
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3 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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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

She must sift the sand to find these beautiful little treasures

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

The admins changed my post a bit and added a lot of my Instagram pictures. I don't find starfishes and sand dollars in Slovenia.

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Kimberly Greenock
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

These are gorgeous!! Where I grew up it was only 40 minutes to Galveston Texas. I would walk up and down the coast and find shark teeth. I have a handful of teeny tiny ones and the way up to one the size of a quarter. I never knew till a Rice University professor walked up to me and explained that I had a handful of ancient (BC) petrified sharks teeth

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

I don't want to ask a stupid question, but are those little starfish real?

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Stamp From A Glass Bottle

Stamp From A Glass Bottle

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Dorothy Parker
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3 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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Tiny, Tinier, Tiniest

Tiny, Tinier, Tiniest

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

Beautiful. Nature is amazing to craft something so perfect.

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Many Sea Pottery Pieces All Found On The Beach

Many Sea Pottery Pieces All Found On The Beach

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3 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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Rare Bottle Stopper Sea Glass Find

Rare Bottle Stopper Sea Glass Find

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3 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

A Big Piece Of Very Rare Turquoise Sea Glass

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