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Crystal, Glassware and Ceramics

Inexpensive everyday items

Use any sturdy, small carton for packing dishes. Movers use dish pack cartons. We prefer to use smaller cartons like book cartons. (Use of smaller cartons places less weight on the bottom dish.)

Be sure the boxes are completely full before sealing them..check the corners. Add padding where ever necessary.

Wrap each piece of glassware in a sheet or two of paper. Pack the pieces in cartons using lots of newsprint as padding. As you fill the box, be sure all the voids are filled with crushed newspapers to about? inch above the top of each box to be positive the box is full. After filling the box, hold the flaps shut and shake the box to be sure nothing rattles. If something rattles, you must add padding or else completely repack.

Medium price items

Use either a cell kit or extra padding for additional protection.

• Cell kits

Packing the pieces in a dish pack using cell kit. (A cell kit, sketched left, is a setoff dividers made of corrugates cardboard. Cell kits both reinforce the packing box and prevent pieces from hitting each other.) Wrap each piece in newsprint and place it in a cell. Again, be sure there are no voids in the packing material.

• Extra padding

Wrap each piece in bubble wrap and pack the pieces in small moving boxes. Fill the voids with each bubble wrap or packing peanuts.

Never wrap etched (or frosted) glassware in printed newspaper. The ink will transfer to the frosted surface, and it will be almost impossible to remove it.

• Expensive stuff

There are 2 goods ways to pack expensive items:
1. Dish packs with bubble wrap.
2. Double boxing.

• Dish packs with Cell kits and bubble wrap

• Wrap the items in bubble wrap.
• Pack each item in a dish pack with cell dividers.
• Place the most fragile or most valuable in the inner cells.

• Double Boxing

• Wrap the items in bubble wrap.
• Pack them in a small moving box (book box).
• Pack light, fragile items like cups and creamers in their own box-separate from heavy stacked items.
• When the small moving box is filled, pack the entire box into a large moving box.
• The process is called "double boxing". Do it this way:
   - Fold a blanket and place it in the bottom of the large box or a dish pack;
   - Place the small box into the large box so you have about 2 inches of clearance all around;
   - Fill the clearance space with clothing or blankets;
   - If you wish, use bubble wrap or peanuts instead of clothing and blankets.

Larger Glassware

Larger glassware can be packed in with the other, smaller glassware. However, particularly large or fragile glassware ought to be placed in its own box. High value larger glassware ought to be double boxed as described above. Choose sizes so there is minimum 2 inches clearance between the inner and outer box. We can help you space out proper combinations.

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