You can fill them as many wifes of Italian shell collectors make into
glasses of jam or cucumbers and deposite them on a nice place in your
kitchen. I've seen this several times.
Another nice idea if you place the shells into a table like a show case with
sand. A wooden table with a part of glass at the upperside to see into the
table and the shells in it. Would be great.
with best shelling greetings
Helmut from Innsbruck


Helmut Nisters
Franz-Fischer-Str. 46
A-6020 Innsbruck / Austria / Europe
phone and fax: 0043 / 512 / 57 32 14
e-mail: [log in to unmask]
url: www.netwing.at/nisters/

or

Natural History Department of the
Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum Innsbruck
malacological collection
Feldstr. 11a
A-6020 Innsbruck / Austria / Europe
phone: 0043 / 512 / 58 72 86-37

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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).