Night display
Night display refers to a (inferior) duplicate of a piece of jewelry that is displayed by jewelers in the shop windows after business hours ("at night") in order to avoid break-ins or to minimize the damage caused by break-ins.
Copies of jewelry are often traded as "night displays".
Individual evidence
- ^ Section 1: Deutsche Goldschmiede-Zeitung . 1956, p. 560 ( limited preview in Google Book search).