I've brought back some particularly beautiful shell fragments from a
trip to the Oregon coast.  I'm trying to find just the right container
or containers to display them and do justice to them.

Somehow the same tired old glass apothecary jars seem boring, and I'm
coming up short on other ideas.  I want a container that doesn't call
attention to it itself, but instead provides a setting for the natural
beauty of the fragments; I'd also like it to be an open container that
allows people to touch and examine the fragements.

Any suggestions, list people?  I'd be very grateful for any ideas.

Thanks in advance.

Erika Gottfried
Teaneck, New Jersey


P.S.  The biggest prizes in my haul were some amazing mussel fragments
that, instead their usual white pearly insides, have a blue-green sheen
like abalone (smashingly set off by the dull navy blue of the outside of
the shells).