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2. Display case - Wikipedia

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   Display case shows and protects a painting by a follower of Robert Campin. A display case (also called a showcase, display cabinet, shadow box, or vitrine) is a cabinet with one or often more transparent tempered glass (or plastic, normally acrylic for strength) surfaces, used to display objects for viewing.

3. Curio cabinet - Wikipedia

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   A curio cabinet with vases. Curio cabinets of Catharina, wife of Douwe Sirtema van Grovestins. A curio cabinet is a specialised type of display case, made predominantly of glass with a metal or wood framework, for presenting collections [1] of curios, like figurines or other interesting objects that invoke curiosity, and perhaps share a common theme.

4. ‘Most people don’t know we exist’: KC area shop is one of ...

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   Over by the hallway to the restrooms at the Blarney Stone is a small glass cabinet that looks at first glance like a display case for exotic insects and butterflies. What it actually contains is a ...

5. China cabinet - Wikipedia

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   Two-handled cabinet cup with cover, so a caudle cup type, painted with a pastoral scene. There is an innumerous number of forms for china cabinets, as sizes, shapes, and construction methods may vary. [2] Traditional china cabinets have shelves lined with silk or velvet, or can have glass shelves. [2]

6. Rowland Ward - Wikipedia

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   In addition, Rowland Ward Ltd. was a great supplier of glass cabinets filled with colourful mounted birds; these were all the rage as home decorations at the time. Because rowing on the Thames was such a fashionable activity during Ward's lifetime, the company also sold canoes imported from Canada.

7. Collecting - Wikipedia

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   The collecting hobby is a modern descendant of the "cabinet of curiosities" which was common among scholars with the means and opportunities to acquire unusual items from the 16th century onwards. Planned collecting of ephemeral publications goes back at least to George Thomason in the reign of Charles I and Samuel Pepys in that of Charles II.