Abstract: A display system suitable to display and protect card-like objects. The display system includes an expandable display device and a card holder. The expandable display includes a primary backing panel and a frame assembly providing a contiguous border around a periphery of the primary backing panel. The card holder includes a transparent first panel and a transparent second panel that selectively engages the first panel to hold the card-like object. Indentations in the first and second panels at a peripheral edge thereof provide a cutout gripping portion enabling the card holder to be manually grasped by inserting a portion of a finger into the cut-out portion.

Abstract: An expandable display device comprising a primary backing panel, which includes top, bottom, first, and second edge portions, a frame assembly including at least one top, bottom, primary and secondary side frame members selectively engaging the edge portions of the primary backing panel, and an assembly for selectively securing at least one card holder to the backing panel and/or the frame. The card holders suited to be secured thereto include two transparent panels. A channel is provided on an interior surface portion of one of the panels and positioned a distance from the edge thereof. The other panel has a ridge on said interior surface portion cooperating with the channel to maintain the two panels in a surface-to-surface abutting relation so that the card-like object is held between the two panels.