I'll have to agree with the ferret,
I use little plastic display boxes mounted in
rows inside a ryker-mount-type box to display my
smallest shells and I just checked them. Ten years
and still no signs of any degradation at all.
Same with my blue stuff, too.

Peter Egerton








>Sorry Son, Your maligning Foam without being specific, there is foam that
doesn't biodegrade. I have some of that "blue"
>stuff that's over four years old and is still soft and supple. I do agree
that there is some types that turn to goo, usually
>that white or cream colored (probably polyurethane). thought my foam people
would like me coming to bat for them , GO
>FOAMERS!!!ferret, still Y2K compliant
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Jordan Star <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
>Date: Thursday, January 06, 2000 10:24 AM
>Subject: it's a no-no
>
>
>|Do not use foam of any kind.  It disintegrates and makes a sticky goo on the
>|shell.
>|Jordan *
>|
>
>
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Peter Egerton, Vancouver, Canada
Collector of worldwide Mollusca,
student of zoology and computers for life.
The beginnings of my website:
http://www.intergate.bc.ca/personal/seashell/index.html
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