1840 Planten's NY Gelatine Capsules Box - with Capsule Inside! handmade panoramic photo which I think makes it

which I think makes it feel extra special

but I'm quite tempted to wear this thing around

And the bottom of the box is the first I've seem with wood sides

The print at bottom on the front reads No

once an active docking place for boats

1840 Planten's NY Gelatine Capsules Box - with Capsule Inside! handmade panoramic photo which I think makes itI'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,