3x Sea Green Fishing Floats with Decorative Rope | Japanese | Vintage

3x Sea Green Fishing Floats with Decorative Rope ' Japanese ' Vintage

This listing is for a collection of 3 Fishing Floats that are a light, sea green color with a light white rope and a secondary green rope to hang or string these together. You can display these in a basket. Add to a collection of fishing floats.

Hang together and create a wall sculpture. Use like an ornament, decorate a large wreath or add to your other nautical decor. Measures 3" Diameter All three have their glass plug or "Mermaid Nipples".

All three are in excellent vintage condition with no chips or cracks. They all have a patina and natural roughing from sea air.

Three of a collection of early 20th century glass and rope, fishing floats of different sizes. These three are the same size with the very similar rope work.

Each measures approx. 3" Diameter.

This is a type that was used by fishermen during the first half of the 20th century. As illustrated in Edward Wadworths's compositions during the 1920's and 1930's.

Fishing Floats were reportedly made from recycled glass. Glass floats were never made directly from sand but always with recycled glass. They would break sake bottles, ramune, Coca Cola bottles, shoyu and other glass materials which would be melted down and shaped into a sphere. Due to the mixture of these colored bottles, the result was the blue/green color which dominates the glass fishing floats. Of course there are other colors like brown which came from beer bottles and even more rare colors like cobalt, purple, red and orange that came from excess glass from glass factories making high end products.

Japan calls these floats ukidama or bindama which simply translates to "buoy ball" or "glass bottle ball".