[PW] ? display cases

[Lois Fundis]

Try "shadow box(es)" or "display box(es)". The two terms seem to be largely 
interchangeable except shadow boxes are a bit deeper, thus more shadow.

See http://www.maxisminis.com/sitemapshadowboxes.html for examples (a site I 
found at random by Googling "shadow boxes").


 Peter Blau (blau7103 at comcast.net) wrote:
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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