I have been using glass jars with cork lids and filling them full of baby
oil to exhibit glass, shells, marbles, sea life, etc.  The oil makes the
color really stand out, the oil stays clear and looks like water.


steven fischler wrote:

> 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).

--
Jim and Bobbi Cordy
of Merritt Island, Florida.

Jim Specializes in Self-Collected
Caribbean & Florida Shells

Bobbi in Shell Creations