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My new display can you set my cousin gave me I had two extra I had two extra shelves cut, because you can never have too many shelves.
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I filled an old shadow box (originally with dried butterflies) with Cretaceous fossil shark teeth I got from PaleoRon. Here is how it came out; eventually it will hang on my office wall:
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Well the show is over and the displays have been judged. I won the President's Choice Award!!! Out of 30 display exhibits, due to the vast variety and educational presentation of labeling. I want to sencerly thank all the FF members that engaged in trades with me and made this collection display possible. I am sharing my congratulations with you. caldigger aka: Doren
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Greetings, I am starting to amass a growing number of loose crinoid caylxes and paleozoic shark teeth (among other things). Currently I am keeping them in plastic containers separated by age (example below), but I am looking for ideas on how to display these, as leaving them in containers is a bit bland to me. One cool idea I saw (but can't seem to find any examples of) was at a show I visited a few years back. The fossils were held up on top of small metal rods the size of a pen, and held in place by small hairlike metal wires. Does anyone have any cool solutions they've used?
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Please and thank you, can anybody tell me where I can buy some Presentation Window boxes large sizes. I can't find any large size boxes about 25cm x 15cm approx in the uk.The boxes I like are satin vinyl effect finish in black .with a plastic display window in the lid and and a sponge pad. Thank you Bobby
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Hey guys, I have got some new Dinosaur fossils coming in soon and I have noticed these black metal display stands which looked really nice. I was thinking of using them as my stands but I just did not know where to get them from. Would you guys know anyone who sells those stands? Thanks for your help! Here is something similar to what I am looking for.
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Hi, Does anyone know an effective way to clean fossils that does NOT damage them? I've heard about using vinegar, but I do not know how long or how diluted the solution must be... most of my fossils are in limestone, so idk if that helps with anything. Thanks PS- I found out about using vinegar and how the acetic acid dissolves CaCO3, but would the acetic acid also dissolve fossilized shells and whatnot (specifically chonetes fossils)? Thanks again
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Hi fossils friends, I have a collection exclusively based on Permian and Triassic Cephalopods. At the moment, I have around 400 pieces (Ammonoïds and Nautiloïds), but all is tidied up in cardboards. (Not place enough). Later, my wish would be to display my collection in an original way. I would not only put fossils on shelves. Maybe recreate for the differents foundplace a setting with rocks/sand/wood ... Anyone has an idea ? Here are a few examples of my cardboards. Thanks a lot by advance. Gilles
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G'day all, was inspired today to reorganise my fossil room, I get that urge every couple of months or so. I've basically just moved things around a bit and tried to group them into some kind of order. I hope to get a few more of the glass display cabinets in the next few weeks as I have a few more pieces I want to display. I've picked up a lot of ideas on displaying my collection from the forum here, it's not only a great knowledge resource but it's a fantastic place to learn from the ideas of others. Thanks to the contributors and moderators for making this the great place that it is, cheers, Dave.
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Here it is, the show booth layout! What do yah think? did we get enough fish this year? I am kind of fond of the table, it is fully lit all the way around the inside with LED lights!
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Creative way to display a 12 vertebrae articulated spine....,,photos?
Minnesota Nice posted a topic in Fossil Preparation
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I just picked up a display case for my newly acquired Hyphalosaurus (see this link for the story of how I found it) I commissioned a local carpenter to build it for me, he did a great job, I will certainly use his services again in the future. I might make a stand for it but haven't decided yet.
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Kinda off topic but....need a deep case to safely keep fossil
cayosusa posted a topic in Questions & Answers
A little off topic, but very excited about my equus hoof find. Now need to find a case for it to keep it safe. It's 3 1/2" x 3 5/8" x 2 1/4" high. Riker doesn't make a box that deep. Any ideas?. Right now just wrapped in bubble. Thank you.
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From the album: My fossil
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I recently had my brother-in-law build a display case for my bison horn. I had to move/remove a lot of fossils from the shelf to make room but it seems to display rather well.
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Most of you may have heard of Nicholas Steno, a Catholic saint that also was involved in discovering the origin of fossils. His dissection of a shark lead him to realize the origin of fossil shark teeth on areas that were now land. These were popularly thought of as being petrified snake tongues, which they called "glossopetrae." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolas_Steno He published a book of his observations, which included some lovely illustrations of the shark and fossil shark teeth. I cleaned up some of these images digitally, and used one of his as a backing to a framed megladon tooth. Anyway, there is how it came out. I had shutterfly.com print the images 8x10 for me, and put it in a shadowbox frame. It was pretty easy, pm me if you want a hires version digital of the background images. Here is the image for the background (send me a PM and I will e-mail you the hi-res version suitable for printing): Here is another one of Steno's images that would be a good alternate background to use (PM me for the hires version):
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The shop got an upgrade this week. Mount making just got easier with a new 2 burner propane forge. This will allow me to shape steel for mounts and stands much more efficiently than the old coal forge I was using. I can also modify/make specialty digging tools now! The options are limitless...
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2 new shark teeth displays. Yesterday I finished my “homemade” riker mounts for my shark teeth. Due that those displays are hard to find in my area, I went to the IKEA for photo frames, I found some where there was more or less 1cm between the bottom and the glass. I also had some soft foam left from extractor hoods that would fit perfectly. At my first attempt I noticed that the foam wasn’t exerting enough pressure against the glass to keep the teeth in fixed position. ( some of the teeth sided to the bottom of the frame) This was solved by adding a simple piece of cardboard behind the foam and compressing the whole. This is the last result ( note that there are 2 ray teeth still sliding away, I’ll have to adjust this a little) The 1st ones are Belgian Miocene teeth the 2nd ones are Belgian eocene teeth and fish remains: Cheers, Kevin.
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Not really a recreation, sculpture, or artwork but this is my attempt at making a great display piece for my desk. This Lycoptera davidi from Liaoning, China is my only fish fossil and I wanted to frame it and put it under glass. Its more beautiful than the best painting I rekon! I've only put on a temporary label but will make a real nice one. Not sure how or with what yet. I've seen some really cool "murals" with many fish assembled in a collage. Anyone have any "fish fossil art"?
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I put some of my best stuff in a glass case that sits in a spot in the kitchen. Thought I would share. Got this football case at hobby lobby. North Texas finds, mainly Eagle ford/austin group. Late cretaceous, 85-92 mya.
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From the album: Scolecodonts
This is the overall display of my scolecodont collection. The specimens within are from Upper Devonian and Ordovician sediments. The entire case is 2 inches (5 cm) square, with individual boxes 5 mm wide. -
Earlier this year when my wife and I returned from Tucson with an SUV loaded to the brim with fossils and rocks, and we quickly realized that we had no way to properly display them. We searched and searched for "nice" display cases, but all we could find was plastic snarge. Restoration Hardware was the only place that sold nice specimen display cases, but they were too big, and too expensive. I told my wife "I could make those, and I'd put lights in them!", so I did. We spent the last few months coming up with a good design and making prototypes. Now we've got an entire house full of these things. -Brian
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We've all seen Charlie's great display case to house his excellent (and ever growing) collection of astounding Mazon Creek finds. My collection is (for the moment) a lot more meager but I'm happy with the pieces I have as they remind me fondly of a birthday spent excavating a chest-deep hole out in Pit 2. That's also where I first met (in person) Charlie, Rob and many other hunters (both on and beyond TFF). A nicer group of guys you'll never get to meet. I decided that the few nodules that I really liked deserved a better display than sitting closed-up on a desk in my office. The thing with Mazon Creek nodules is that when you've run them through dozens of freeze/thaw cycles and are fortunate to have them pop and reveal something nice inside, you want to display both halves of the split nodule. Charlie has come up with an excellent (and very crafty) method of making custom mounts out of plexi to display his pairs of nodule halves but I was looking for something simpler--(read that as, "within my limited crafting abilities"). I decided a shadowbox was a tried and true method of displaying collections of 3-D items so I'd go that route. I found some inexpensive (actually quite cheap) plastic shadowboxes at a local arts and crafts store in my area (Michael's, for those in the USA). My idea was to dress these up a bit customizing them to my needs. Below are a more or less step-by-step process of what I did to make display for my favorite Mazon Creek finds. First, the 3-pack of 8" x 8" shadowboxes and a nice textured paint to cover the ugly shiny plastic frame. -Ken
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Here's my collection so far. It's kind of a mess until i get my hands on another display case (it's in the works). I like to keep the "nerd" vibe throughout my living space. Haha I really want to isolate my really nice pieces into their own case. All in good time though. My Mammoth tooth found in the Peace river. Handmade antler & oak display Peace river shark teeth and turtle bits. Fox hills Ammos and Baculites in altered shadow boxes Trigonocarpus sp. Mazon Creek in altered plastic container Peace River display board w/leather backer (box coming soon) m Mazon Creek cabinet My "main" display case (mazon creek, fox hills, white river, green river, peace river and a lot more) Let me know if you guys want closer shots of anything. Enjoy!
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I recently purchased 2 Hadrosaur eggs, they were once joined but the matrix joining them has split (they can still be positioned as they were together, just with a visible crack where the split is). As they are heavy, fragile, and already split I want to display them and keep them safe, here's what I'm thinking: I have a plexiglas tray (thick) that they fit in nicely. I want to create a ground-cover like base that they can sit in, which will have some indentations to keep them from moving, and wanted to make this look like sand or riverbank mud as they would be found in their original natural state. Essentially making a nest or backdrop of their natural surroundings. Then I would place a plex cover to keep dust out. Rather than just fill the tray with sand (which would be messy, likely not too accurate, and wouldn't keep them in place), I want to pour in a wet material that I can sculpt and will dry to a nice base. Any suggestions on what to use? I could use plaster but that will add weight to an already heavy display. Ideally the material could have integral color (redish brown like the muddy matrix these eggs are found in), and some sort of a silty-sandy texture. I'm curious as to what others have used, done, or could suggest for my project. Thanks!
