Reader T.W. wrote: “My grandmother, married in the late 1800s, had Baccarat glass among her wedding gifts. It was eventually put in storage, carefully wrapped in newspapers and stowed in a sturdy barrel in a shed by the garage of the summer house on the south shore of Long Island. Years later after my grandmother died, the four children divided the household items and my mother asked to have the Baccarat glass. She remembered it was stored in the shed. They went to the shed—no barrel. But a small piece of wood was sticking up out of the sand. The wood floor holding the barrel had rotted away and the barrel sunk into the sand. The group dug out the glassware and not a piece was broken.”

We are glad you were so lucky, but it is a bad idea to wrap china or glass in newspapers. The ink from the print can leave a permanent mark. And don’t store heavy barrels on sand.

 

 

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