Brown Sea Glass
Amber soda-lime glass
Warm amber glass from beer and medicine bottles, second only to white in abundance.
- Typical size
- 0.25–2 in
- How often it turns up
- Very common
- Collecting
- Usually legal to collect
- Handling
- Safe to handle
Sea glass is discarded material and is free to collect on public beaches. Leave modern broken glass for a bin, not a pocket.
How to tell it apart
- Amber to root-beer brown
- Fully frosted surface
- Often thicker than clear glass
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