For very fragile and very expensive items, you can use box-in-box packing. To do this, you first pack the item using crushed paper, bubble wrap, peanuts (although they’re hard to handle) or light clothing to cushion it within the smaller box. Then, you pack that sealed smaller box using the same materials, into a bigger box. This double-protects the item!
For small fragiles, you can wrap them in paper or bubble wrap and put them into a plastic container with or without a sealable lid. Then put that into a box of fragiles or wrap it in bubble wrap and put it into another bigger box for transport.
Small artistic knick-knack statuary with wings or other fragile extrusions can be a real problem. They need to be carefully paper protected first.
Notice the soft cushion of bathroom tissue paper gently placed around the protruding fingers of both hands and the bird’s wings.
This gentle first cushioning is what has to be done with these kinds of items.
So you start off with this cushioning and build it up loosely and gently, not tightly.
After the bathroom paper is taped, a few layers of loose bubble wrap or paper goes over it.
Next, after the whole piece is gently shrouded in these wrappings, it’s tape sealed.
Then, this very fragile loosely wrapped item is put into its own small box
and further protected with bunched up paper and bubble wrap as cushioning within the box.
Finally this box needs to be sealed up. This piece was a bit too big for this particular box so a covering of layers of bubble wrap was applied to extend the height of the box. Cardboard could have been put over all of this also.
Then, that smaller box was put into a bigger box.
Finally, this bigger box just needs further cushioning with bunched-up paper and/or big bubble wrap to center the smaller box within it and then it needs to be sealed up. It could also be filled on its sides with some cardboarded or foam wrapped small pictures.
