[PW] ? display cases ...

[Hatch, Patricia]

Hello,

I've always heard them referred to as curios, here in the
Northeast...here's the wikipedia article about it
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curio_%28furniture%29

Hope this helps 


Patty Hatch
Harvard University-CWD/FSS
Cambridge, MA 02138
Phone: (617) 496-3242
Email: patricia_hatch at harvard.edu
 
 

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I've seeking a word or phrase, describing a box with many small
compartments (not the same size) that can hang on a wall or stand on a
table, in which one displays little ornaments and such . . . they're
used by people who make them to order with ornaments and such that
detail someone's life . . . they look sort of like type cases (in which
you keep movable printing type, but those have almost all the
compartments the same size, and what I'm thinking of doesn't . . . what
are these display cases called?

       Many thanks,

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