1840 Planten's NY Gelatine Capsules Box - with Capsule Inside! red tractor " and also because I

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

this lovely wall hanging piece could indeed hold some matches or other little things

like a little window to the larger landscape on the other side

What I love most about her are her very large feet

1840 Planten's NY Gelatine Capsules Box - with Capsule Inside! red tractor " and also because II'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,