1840 Planten's NY Gelatine Capsules Box - with Capsule Inside! weathervane arrow "appointments included running stream water

"appointments included running stream water

with hand-tinted cheeks

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

It looks like perhaps tiny screws or nails were initially used to join sides then abandoned in favor of glue

enamel painter

1840 Planten's NY Gelatine Capsules Box - with Capsule Inside! weathervane arrow "appointments included running stream waterI'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,