[PW] ? display cases ...

[Suzanne Guinn]

They were real popular in the 70's. They were called shadow boxes (for the
knick knack stuff). They were just drawers for moveable type before, I
think...
I don't think they had a special name for them.

Suzanne Guinn, director
Hilda Kroeker Library
Calvary Bible College
15800 Calvary Road
Kansas City, MO 64147

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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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