Sea glass obsession!

Hey, if you love sea glass as much as I do, I know I'm forgiven already for the length of this post and the amount of pictures. LOL. All of the pictures in this post were shot with my brand new Canon Rebel XS, and I've been experimenting as well so now all of you are my guinea pigs! mwahahaha!

Anyway, it's been snowing and I've been working too much to head to the beach at all this year, which makes me a sad pumpkin. Tide times have been working against me too, so seeing it's been over 3 weeks since I've gone actually makes me rather miserable. And I've been sick to boot. LOL

Anyway, last trip's finds! Not much of note until I found another marble at the same beach I found two others! This one was partially buried in the sand, so it made the day. :) Also found my first piece of vibrant lavender.

I like this marble.

Right after this trip, I was poking around the bottle forum at antique-bottles.net and then there was this topic about someone selling a sea glass marble on ebay for $66 recently. So...I posted a picture of one of my marbles that I had handy. It got me thinking...now that almost a year has passed since I started collecting sea glass, maybe I should do a "best finds so far" type entry. I also wanted to re-shoot some of my better pieces since my Kodak had some problems with detail sometimes.
Some of my bottle necks and other special pieces that I keep separate (otherwise I keep them in clear jars by color).

Sea pottery, milk glass, and my lone piece of opaque black glass.
As it turns out, last night I discovered that the two patterned pieces are from the Greenwood China company in Trenton, NJ (the back of the larger piece is marked Greenwood / Trent). They are from the same pattern but two different sized plates! A whole plate in this pattern is currently for sale here. The best part was that these two patterned pieces were found well over 6 months apart at the same beach, but they didn't quite match up until I found the picture of that plate. Greenwood China was only in business from around 1862 or 1868 until 1933, and the particular stamp used on these plates was first implemented in 1886. These plates were more than likely manufatured for a hotel. A part of me wonders if they came from the Narragansett Casino (built in 1886, destroyed by fire in 1900) or the Rockingham Hotel (where the fire started which burned the Narragansett Casino.) If you know of the Narragansett Towers, they were originally part of the Narragansett Casino. (More information can be found on this site!)


My two favorite bottle neck pieces, found at the same beach!

Anyone who can identify some of these patterns or embossing, feel free!

This piece (above) isn't so worn (found in the driveway of a house at Pleasure Beach along with other bits of sea glass (I'm guessing that the person who lived at the house collected sea glass and kept it in a jar, which was smashed in the driveway because we found significant amounts of sea glass in that location.)

My best pieces, cobalt blues (lousy quality wear/frosting on the cobalts for the most part...) vaseline/uranium glass, and my marbles. :)

My red piece shaped like the lower 48 of the good ol' USA :D. Maybe after global warming though...because naturally Cape Cod and Florida are missing. lol

And the marbles too.