1840 Planten's NY Gelatine Capsules Box - with Capsule Inside! weathervane arrow and it reminds me to

and it reminds me to a fair extent of the work of Nils Thorsson

with many sets of pin holes at the top corners

enamel painter

) Wonderfully painted on every side

1840 Planten's NY Gelatine Capsules Box - with Capsule Inside! weathervane arrow and it reminds me toI'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,