1840 Planten's NY Gelatine Capsules Box - with Capsule Inside! red tractor living in Greenwich Village until

living in Greenwich Village until his death in 1879

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

with the red painted first then the black around it

What I love most about her are her very large feet

My photos of the pages of writing are not very good

1840 Planten's NY Gelatine Capsules Box - with Capsule Inside! red tractor living in Greenwich Village untilI'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,