The oyster industry provides the creative consumer with an eye for uniqueness and a host of gifts for the oyster lover.
One excellent site offers unique handmade gifts straight from Maryland’s Eastern Shore.
In Maryland, Old Line Oysters offers a bit of this coastal lifestyle presented in unique gifts through a beautiful jewelry line saluting the oyster industry.
The foundation of Old Line Oysters supports and sources fair trade artisans.
When you buy any of these unique gifts, a portion of the sale supports the Oyster Recovery Partnership’s Reef Restoration.
Marine biologists continue to work hard to keep the Chesapeake Bay clean and healthy.
The oyster reefs are dangerously close to disappearing forever.
But, thanks to the efforts of Oyster Recovery and the citizens supporting their efforts to bring back the beautiful reefs of the Maryland coastlines.
Efforts by biologists continue to see a slow reversal of the poor water quality and disappearing oyster reefs.
Oyster shells are utilized to rebuild oyster reefs.
Old Line Oysters is in the process of helping with these efforts by recycling ten shells for every purchased shell that would otherwise be trashed.
These shells are recycled with baby oysters and placed back into the Chesapeake Bay and protected.
You can help with these efforts every time you purchase a shell gift from Old Line Oysters.
1800 Vintage Monograms
It is most difficult to describe the beauty and uniqueness of each gift.
Access our website and take a look at the gorgeous pictures.
The following unique gifts offered by Old Line Oysters are a lovely collection honoring the oyster population and created by talented artists off vintage monograms.
These unique and beautiful etchings’ designs onto oyster shells are straight from the 1800s.
Artists apply a 24kt gold leaf to each shell with specific monograms on our jewelry, making gifts personalized for family and friends.
If anyone is loving the Eastern Shore, they will love these monogram designs.
Unique Jewelry Concepts
- The Old Line Jewelry section partners with Hands Producing Hope offers our beautiful and unique signature jewelry line. Access this website to view beautiful jewelry photos that make wonderful and lasting gifts.
- Uniquely Presented Gift Cards
Viewing our line of gifts can be overwhelming and make it difficult to choose the perfect gift for that lucky person.
If you cannot decide, then purchase a gift card specially wrapped in our very own designed Annapolis or Maryland Toile.
This unique wrap has no extra costs.
This website offers excellent gifts for any occasion.
If you are ever at a loss for that special, unique gift, assess this website and search the overwhelming gift selection.
Gifts to Help with the Oyster Restoration Efforts
This site partner with Oyster Restoration efforts by offering unique and special offers surrounding the oyster industry.
Ten of the most popular gifts include the following.
If you, a family member, or friend embraces the taste for scallops, crawfish, crabs, oysters, clams, or lobsters, they could probably use a complete seafood shucker kit to prepare, cook, and eat these wonderful seafood selections.
Preparing for your next fresh seafood dinner party, you need this stainless steel 44-quart seafood and crawfish cooker.
This Stainless-steel Cooker is large enough to handle any size dinner party or clam bake.
No party is a real party without a 250-ounce, round aluminum seafood platter tray for oysters, clams, and raw bar items.
Its weight is 2.2 pounds. This tray, made from superior, top-quality aluminum, is dishwasher safe and lasts many years.
This tray is great for a casual setting or an upscale event and fits into any theme or decor.
More importantly, this tray retains cold and keeps foods at the perfect temperature. One of these trays is never enough.
Buy two or more and be prepared for your next event.
This gift is the perfect 100 percent quartz neon clock for the garage or any room of the house.
This clock is a custom blue 18″ Double clock for Redeye Laserworks.
This clock finishes off a sea theme. There are two hand blown glass neon rings inside a molded resin housing.
The chrome finish presents a high polish finish. There is no loud annoying tick-tock or other noise to irritate.
The neon lights, powered by one AA battery and classic pull-chain, turn the lights on and off. Finish off this lovely gift by personalizing.
Divers Lobster PRP Package contains,
- A green self-locking, stainless steel snare
- An aluminum catch bag for catching your lobsters right from the sea. You cannot get any fresher.
- A three-inch aluminum gauge
- A free DVD
The Norpro Seafood Serving Set contains the following,
- Two butter warmers with stands and candles, holding 1/3 cup butter
- Two shellfish crackers
- Six seafood forks and scoops
- Odor remover to remove fish, garlic, or onion from the hands. Apply to hands and rub together under running water
The Oyster Party Platter
Is a serving tray is key to a successful party when it serves our delicious smoked oyster bucatini.
This tray is ceramic and hand-painted oysters, shellfish, farm animals, cheese, or produce by a conservationist/artist from Britain, Richard Bramble.
The size is 15.4″ x x10″
The Shucking Knife
Those who shuck their seafood needs the proper oyster knife.
This knife is sharp, a bit weighted, and contoured for the hand.
Contouring allows for efficiency and precision. This knife has a beautiful and elegantly sleek wooden handle.
The Oyster Clamp
This tool provides a more comfortable and secure way to shuck an oyster. This clamp is handcrafted in Main using local maple.
This specific clamp is a great kitchen tool for those with little experience in shucking oysters.
Oyster Art
If you have a room in your home that is of the nautical theme, you will love a piece or two or three of these oyster art by talented artists who utilize coastal surroundings and marine life.
These whimsical art pieces are too lovely to describe.
Access this website to see for yourself this oyster art makes the perfect gift.
Kitchen Tea Towels
These towels are artistic and useable every day.
They are depicting holiday appetizers, bottles of wine, and other unique art painted in printed hues.
The paintings of oysters, Christmas ornaments, and series make these towels a perfect gift.
Sea Farm Swag
Wearing these gifts support and say a lot about the Maine oyster farms.
Items of clothing gear tell the story of the farms. Gift a unique T-shirt or a piece of headwear from Merritt Island, Love Point, or Ferda Farms.
Sustainable Wear
These clothing items make the message loud and clear about the importance of preserving the environment.
If the slogan does not maintain the oyster community, there is always some environmental issue to support, such as Ocean acidification, Seaventrue Clam Company.
No matter the ecological slogan, tank tops, crop tops, T-shirts, and more are waiting for a meaningful saying.
Oyster Reads
Offers a recipe cookbook in glossy photographs depicting farm to table memoirs.
This book is an excellent book for oyster lovers. Oyster tales, oyster farmer profiles makes the reader go through this book again and again.
How about a tour of America’s oyster industry region by region?
Fabulous recipes from top restaurants and festivals make this recipe book intoxicatingly enjoyable.
Any cook would be grateful for such a wonderful cookbook in the kitchen.
Farm Share
Enables a connection between food producers and consumers. Invest in a farmer’s product by purchasing a farm share.
Gain relationships with the source of your food and work to give back to the planet through Farm Share.
Oyster farmers make it possible to purchase oysters directly from the farmer.
Never rely on big box stores, fish markets, or restaurants.
Emily’s Oysters allow patrons to buy a certain number of oysters every year.
These options come with exciting gifts such as a shucking knife, tea towels, coolers, and in-person shucking lessons. This gift is truly unique.
Oyster Club Membership
Is for those who love oysters but do not live near any oyster farms.
Members receive 25 oysters every month from Maine-based oyster farms. Oysters ship overnight and arrive fresh to you.
This membership helps to support devoted, hardworking farmers.
The Oyster Adventure
Gift the lucky person with an oyster getaway—a ticket to the world’s oyster festivals that include several different oyster farms.
Enjoy upcoming oyster events such as Low Country Oyster Festival in Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina, Halifax Oyster Festival, and the Maine Oyster Festival.
This weekend getaway is the ultimate gift for the oyster lover in the family.