Identify your sea glass from a photo with GlassLore. Upload a clear picture of your find to learn more about its colour, rarity and possible history.
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Identify Sea Glass From a Photo
Found something interesting on the beach? GlassLore helps you investigate your find from a photograph.
Upload a clear image of your sea glass, and GlassLore will analyse visible characteristics such as colour, shape and surface appearance to help you understand what you may have found.
How to get the best result:
Photograph it in natural light, use a plain background, show one piece at a time, include another angle if needed.
What Can GlassLore Identify?
Here you can naturally cover:
Colour: including unusual shades that can be difficult to distinguish.
Rarity: how common or unusual that colour/type of glass is.
Possible age and origin: clues that may help explain where a piece came from.
Characteristics: shape, frosting, wear and other visible clues.
Is My Sea Glass Rare?
GlassLore will identify what your find is, how rare the colour is, and use the latest eBay data to value it. Prices on eBay keep on rising. I have seen pieces sell for £50+. Sea Glass hunting has never been as fun as it is today; you are hunting for real treasure!
How Do You Identify Sea Glass?
Colour – The more colours, the better; a multi will get you to legendary status, but a red or an orange will score you good points on the system and climb the leaderboard.
Size – Bigger is always better, even though the smaller bits make better jewellery imo
Shape: The smoother the better; jagged pieces don’t have quite the same allure as rounded pieces.
Sea Glass Identification FAQs
Can you identify sea glass from a photo? Yes – Upload and see what your find is worth
How can I tell how old my sea glass is? The more rounded it is, the more likely it is to have been tumbling around in the sea for 100+ years.
What colours of sea glass are rare?– Check out our rarity guide: Orange and Red, but Blue is my favourite
Can GlassLore identify pottery found on the beach? – Not yet; let me know if you want this feature
Can GlassLore tell me how much my sea glass is worth? – Yes, we take the latest sales from eBay to report the data on value
Hunter Rankings
The best part of GlassLore is that you can upload your finds, enter our leaderboard, and see if you can become Hunter of the Month!
Step1 – Upload Your Photo to GlassLore
Step 2 – Choose to Add to Gallery
Step 3 – Claim your points and your spot on the leaderboard