Pure Sea Glass
Richard H. LaMotte
(Reviewer - Rebecca Brown)
2004 Chesapeake Seaglass Publishing
ISBN: 0975324608

Discovering Nature's Vanishing Gems.

Extraordinary details & stunning photography on those shoreline treasures known as seaglass.

As a beachcomber from my earliest memories along the English seashore, when I got to the Pacific Northwest coast I was astonished at the array found upon the strand after the huge ocean storms, & would come home with my pockets weighed down with wet, shiny & so smooth treasures.

Richard LaMotte's exquisitely wrought guide book to the wonders at our feet, within the enchanting curl & scallop of Mother Sea's waves, is as much a treasure, as the sea-burnished pieces we bend & pick up as we wander along the strand.

Pure Sea Glass is an astonishingly beautiful work of art & labor of love. Open up to the Table of Contents & feast your eyes on:
 • History in the Sand
 • Locating Sea Glass
 • Conditioning & Weathering
 • History of Glass
 • Colors
 • Bottles & Containers
 • Tableware & Utility Glass
 • Flat Glass
 • Marbles, Insulators & Bonfire Glass
 • Appraising Rarity
 • A Rapidly Vanishing Bounty.

Pure Sea Glass offers history & facts about the globs of glass washed up by the waves, as well as page after page of exhilerating colors, shapes & images of the seashore. & the locations of Glass Museums in America, & the poetry of the names: Peachblow, Satin, Pressed, Opalescent, Milk, Flashed, Hobnail, Custard, Depression, Coralene, all with luminous photos.

If you are looking for a gift for anyone who loves the beach, then Pure Sea Glass will make a unique & therapeutic gesture to chase away the Winter blues.

If you're going to the seaside for your vacations, Pure Sea Glass is one guide book you should pack, with perhaps an extra one to leave in the library of your hotel, motel or B&B!
(04/24/05)

Rebecca