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13" Hand-Blown Glass Japanese Fishing Buoy ca. 1950
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- $245.00
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- $245.00
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Item: Buoy
Make: Japanese Origin
Age: ca. 1950
Construction: Hand-Blow Glass, Rope
Dimensions: 13” Diameter
Condition: Excellent pre-owned condition. No chips or cracks to the glass and rope is taught.
Details: Glass floats/buoys were used by fishermen in many parts of the world to keep their fishing nets, as well as longlines or droplines, afloat.
Large groups of fishnets strung together, sometimes 50 miles long, were set adrift in the ocean and supported near the surface by these hollow glass balls or cylinders containing air to give them buoyancy. These glass floats are no longer used by fishermen, but many of them are still afloat in the world's oceans, primarily the Pacific. They have become a popular collectors' item for beachcombers and decorators. Replicas are now manufactured, but this is an authentic original.