The Sea Glass Shard of the Month: June 2014
The Largest Sea Glass Shard In The World?
This monstrous sea glass shard originated from a Victorian era glass factory in the Northeast of England.
Sea Glass Specifications:
Color: Very Dark Teal
Diameter: 152.4 mm (6") Average
Thickness: 63.5 mm (2-1/2") Average
Weight: 2.39 kilograms (5.26 lbs)
This month we'll talk about an absolutely unbelievable sea glass shard belonging to Penny Parker, of England, was chosen. It was actually given to her by a friend whose husband found it one day while collecting in the northeast of England where a Victorian glass factory once operated. Parker was told that while walking up to the shard, he thought it might be glass but felt he was probably mistaken because it was just too huge to be sea glass. When he picked it up "he nearly dropped down dead with shock!"
Holding this specimen up to the sky reveals that it is actually a very dark teal colored piece of sea glass.
Lori DeSalvo of English Sea Glass holds up this behemoth during the recent NASGA Sea Glass Festival in New Jersey.
Parker's friend phoned her about wanting to show her something but didn't tell her exactly what it was. After meeting at a local pub the friend pulled the sea glass behemoth out of a paper bag. Parker said she almost fell out of her chair when she saw it. They weighed the shard on a kitchen scale at the pub and found it to be over 5 lbs! All the people in the pub were absolutely amazed at the size and weight of the shard. Parker, who is a professional sea glass collector herself, knew it came from the glass factory, which produced a lot of glass waste that was thrown into the North Sea. It appeared to her to have been shaped by the bottom of the bucket that the glass was poured into while still in a molten stage.
Parker was given the piece by her friend saying that "if Penny owned it more people would see it" knowing Parker travels to several sea glass festivals in both England and the United States.
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