Abstract: A container for storing a plurality of individually packaged sticks of rock crystal candy for selection and sale to the public and having a transparent plastic case attached to the container and extending across a front surface thereof, which case houses a series of unpackaged sticks of rock crystal candy for viewing by the purchasing public of samples of the packaged sticks stored in the container is disclosed. The case is removably attached to the container so that the samples can be removed and replaced as necessary but cannot be easily entered by members of the public. The display permits grouping of numerous different colors of the stick candy in a single upstanding row and presents the samples in their sparkling and glossy unpackaged form.

Abstract: A moisture damage protection system for an article display case of the type which uses an air pump to inject high pressure air through an air line into a base portion of a transparent, liquid filled tube or column to form bubbles which rise through the liquid in the column is disclosed. The protection system prevents liquid in the column from backing up through the air line into the air pump when the pump is de-energized. A hollow pipe, which may be in the form of one of several support pipes for article support plates surrounding the column, is provided in which the air line from an air outlet port of the pump is inserted. The air line extends upwardly through the hollow pipe to a level above the level of the liquid in the tube, then loops back downwardly through the hollow pipe and out of a base portion of the hollow pipe into an air inlet port in a base portion of the column which is in communication with the liquid in the column.