[PW] ? display cases ...

[Joy Tofteland]

Shadow boxes.  They are usually backed by a mirror so you can see the
item from all sides.

Joy Tofteland
Reference/ Technical Resources Librarian
Kirkendall Public Library
Ankeny, IA

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Subject: [PW] ? display cases ...

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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