Aqua green sea glass ring in argentium sterling silver // Found beach glass ring // U.S. size 5 3/4

I found the sea glass featured in this ring on Hammonasset Beach in Madison, Connecticut. Entirely handmade by me in my Connecticut studio, the ring takes the shape and texture of the glass as its starting point. Other than flattening the back of the sea glass slightly, I did not alter its shape in any way. The classic "sea glass" color of light bluish green, the sea glass is also intriguingly bumpy. Sea glass or beach glass (or, as I grew up calling it, frosted glass) forms over decades as glass objects lost or discarded by humans are gradually abraded by sand and other substances on the ocean floor. It's an incredibly evocative material, and increasingly rare as glass gives way to plastic--a material that has a far more insidious effect on the environment. Sea glass is a contradiction. It's trash, but it's also evidence of the beauty that can be made from human wastefulness. The setting and band of this ring are made from argentium sterling silver and fine silver. Argentium sterling silver is a patented type of sterling with more pure silver than regular sterling silver (94% vs. 92.5%). It resists tarnish, finishes hard, and exhibits a bright silver color. It is hypoallergenic and contains no nickel.