1840 Planten's NY Gelatine Capsules Box - with Capsule Inside! handmade panoramic photo once an active docking place

once an active docking place for boats

The print at bottom on the front reads No

or a few flowering branches

but I'm quite tempted to wear this thing around

1840 Planten's NY Gelatine Capsules Box - with Capsule Inside! handmade panoramic photo once an active docking placeI'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,