Beautiful earrings using matching seaglass gems encased in a silver plated holder - a perfect eco gift for anyone who loves the sea and its treasures. What mankind has thrown away, nature has perfected :-)

Seaglass beachcombed from the glorious Seaham beach in County Durham is special indeed.

Above the sweeping endless beachfront once loomed a huge Victorian glass factory. Seaham boasted the largest glass bottle works in Britain – The Londonderry Bottleworks, operating from the 1850s to 1921. 

The bottleworks produced up to 20,000 hand-blown bottles every day, in different colours and designs including hand crafted bottles, perfume bottles and household glass, all of which were distributed across the globe. 

The bottleworks would dump large amounts of 'end of day' waste glass straight into the North Sea and that’s where Seaham’s sea glass story began - with each new tide can be found perfectly rounded seaglass gems of all colours - smoothed and rounded by the waves for more than 100 years.

So many colours, so beautiful as to be deemed extraordinary :-) 

Artist Nicola Furbisher loves this beach and has found a perfect way for sea treasure lovers to own some of this very special seaglass - and wear it too. 

Painstakingly matching colours and sizes together, beautiful gems are encased in a pretty silver-plated cage for wearing.