How to pack icons for travel?

[migencluz]

I am leaving for another country, and would like to bring a few of my icons with me. Is there a specific way I should pack them, or can I just wrap each one in a handkerchief, then place them in my bag? Should I carry them in my carry-on luggage, or can I place them in my check-in luggage?

 

[You]

I am leaving for another country, and would like to bring a few of my icons with me. Is there a specific way I should pack them, or can I just wrap each one in a handkerchief, then place them in my bag? Should I carry them in my carry-on luggage, or can I place them in my check-in luggage?

Not knowing what your icons look like its not easy to tell you. I would, if they are valuable hand painted or framed, put them in your carry-on.
From firsthand experience I know that baggage handlers stack your check-in luggage in the corners of huge warehouses by competing with each other to see how far and how near the top of the pile they can throw the luggage. So no valuable or fragile items should ever be in your check-in luggage, in my opinion.
You can protect the corners of framed pictures from accidental knocks, if you are fussy, with small folded bits of cardboard taped on to each corner. Unframed, just as you say, wrapped individually in cloth is good.

 

[migencluz]

Not knowing what your icons look like its not easy to tell you. I would, if they are valuable hand painted or framed, put them in your carry-on.
From firsthand experience I know that baggage handlers stack your check-in luggage in the corners of huge warehouses by competing with each other to see how far and how near the top of the pile they can throw the luggage. So no valuable or fragile items should ever be in your check-in luggage, in my opinion.
You can protect the corners of framed pictures from accidental knocks, if you are fussy, with small folded bits of cardboard taped on to each corner. Unframed, just as you say, wrapped individually in cloth is good.

I didn’t even know there are framed icons. I just know they are painted directly on wooden panels. Mine is approximately 4x7 inches on a board with rounded corners. It’s just a reproduction, and I can fit it in my backpack. Yes, I would like it better in my carry-on.

 

[Mintaka]

Wrapping it in tissue paper or even regular/brown paper would be good, as that will protect from scrapes. Beyond that, you might want to wrap it in a layer of the bubble wrap with the small bubbles, to protect from harder bumps.

Obviously a bigger icon, or a framed icon, would need more special handling than a little itty-bitty wood reproduction with tough paint.