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: When opened, the box displays a moving procession of incredible sights—prehistoric creatures like mastodons and ichthyosauri, and people with towering, fantastical headdresses.

: The man reveals a neat, ivory-carved box from his pocket. Show_Box_

: The "Show Box" serves as a metaphorical window into the imagination and the wonders of the world, though the magician's intentions and the box's gifts are tied to the protagonist's generosity and perspective. Fancy's Show-Box (Nathaniel Hawthorne) : When opened, the box displays a moving

In the 19th-century story The Magician's Show Box by , a young man named Gaspar meets a mysterious "little man" in a gray coat. The man offers to show Gaspar more wonders in a single day than he could find in a lifetime of wandering the world. : When opened

Another famous literary use is short story Fancy's Show-Box .