1840 Planten's NY Gelatine Capsules Box - with Capsule Inside! red tractor What I love most about

What I love most about her are her very large feet

" and also because I thought it could serve as a great prop for all sorts of things

This is one of three double-sided cut paper designs I purchased from the same source--certainly removed from one album--which I am listing simultaneously

though it is so distinctive and beautifully decorated I think I'd be more inclined to treat it as a design object than to drink out of it--I  might put it to use as a small planter

My photos of the pages of writing are not very good

1840 Planten's NY Gelatine Capsules Box - with Capsule Inside! red tractor What I love most aboutI'm increasingly fond of early paper covered cardboard boxes, all the better with great labels pointing to curious things inside, and this is really a lovely one in pink and yellow and green, produced for Planten's Gelatine Capsules, New York. Even better, the label points to its production for the Exhibition of the American Institute, 1840 a New York entity founded in 1828 to "encourage and promote domestic industry in Agriculture, Commerce,