Boxes, Boxes, Boxes, make your own specimen boxes for your Fossils.
If you have ever tried to find them on line, it is not easy, and I think expensive if you need more than a few. Then shipping and handling. Thump.
I am CHEEP, I know it. Here is how I solved the box problem, in pictures.
Tools I use: Paper cutter, (you can use scissors, ouch) paper cutter is much easier.
Stapler, I use the plier’s type but any sturdy type will work.
A slightly heavier type of scissors.
Pencil, ruler, stuff like that.
And those useless, shirt, sweater, holiday (did I do
Here’s a few hours work, with a cost of some staples.
Here is a bundle of shirt boxes 6 for 99 cents after Christmas. This is 12 pieces, that makes a lot of boxes.
Archival paper.
I would presume that these boxes made out of Shirt box cardboard, would last for 50 years in normal home storage conditions, as I have never seen old boxes like these deteriorate. If you are concerned about very long-term storage you
