1840 Planten's NY Gelatine Capsules Box - with Capsule Inside! handmade panoramic photo The print at bottom on

The print at bottom on the front reads No

which it took me a long time to notice so I don't think significantly detracts

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

the "Dialling" side beginning: "Dialling [sic] is a very ancient art

which I think makes it feel extra special

1840 Planten's NY Gelatine Capsules Box - with Capsule Inside! handmade panoramic photo The print at bottom onI'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,