[PW] ? display cases ...

[Pam Berberich]

curio cabinet is what comes to my mind...curiously it seems

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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