Sea Glass Blog — sea pottery

The latest sea pottery mystery I came up against was identifying a small shard of sea pottery with just a portion of the maker's mark on it. With only a bit of content to work from, my Google searches turned up nothing. So, I asked on Instagram and Sea Glass Nation set me on the right path! First, @pearlshaynea suggested that one of the words might be "Buffalo" and @carl_edquist confirmed that it was probably hotelware. My next Google search landed me in an unexpected place that yielded the first clue. In 2003, the Yosemite Research Center published Victory Culture: Archeological...

You never know what you might end up learning when you pick up a piece of sea glass or sea pottery on the beach. The other day, a couple of people (@traces.of.time and @ashes_of_beauty) posted pictures of the pottery they find along the beach in Monterey and a few other people (including me) said that we find that same pattern, too. I asked where it came from and the person said it was from the Hotel Del Monte, which operated in Monterey, California from 1880-1942. That started my search. I first googled Hotel Del Monte and found out it had...