DavidW
Well-Known Member
Maybe someone has posted this before, but I just thought this would be worth passing along. I thought it would be a neat idea to display a small collection of shards ("better" shards that are too nice to throw away) such as part of a bottle in a scarce color, or with attractive embossing that you consider interesting for one reason or other, mounted in one of those glass-topped display cases that are often used to display Indian artifacts like arrowheads, or jewelry or coins. I mean the ones that are flat, rectangular and are only about 2 to 3 inches or so in thickness. There might be a few show up in this keyword search: https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=p2334524.m570.l1313&_nkw=display+case++arrowheads&_sacat=0&LH_TitleDesc=0&_odkw=display+case++for+coins+or+artifacts&_osacat=0
I don't have one of those cases right now, but it seems like with a thin layer of cotton, styrofoam, felt or something of that nature, and placing the shards in a nice arrangement, maybe with some kind of "color scheme" would be a great way to keep and display them. I am sure some of the diggers have found "criers" that were too good to leave, even though they were broken, or maybe only a small part of the piece was found. Of course this would only work for small shards, maybe less than two or three inches in size. And pieces of glass that are more "flat" rather than curved.
I don't have one of those cases right now, but it seems like with a thin layer of cotton, styrofoam, felt or something of that nature, and placing the shards in a nice arrangement, maybe with some kind of "color scheme" would be a great way to keep and display them. I am sure some of the diggers have found "criers" that were too good to leave, even though they were broken, or maybe only a small part of the piece was found. Of course this would only work for small shards, maybe less than two or three inches in size. And pieces of glass that are more "flat" rather than curved.