1840 Planten's NY Gelatine Capsules Box - with Capsule Inside! red tractor with the red painted first

with the red painted first then the black around it

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

This is one of three double-sided cut paper designs I purchased from the same source--certainly removed from one album--which I am listing simultaneously

and beautiful form to the shapes of the suits

though it is so distinctive and beautifully decorated I think I'd be more inclined to treat it as a design object than to drink out of it--I  might put it to use as a small planter

1840 Planten's NY Gelatine Capsules Box - with Capsule Inside! red tractor with the red painted firstI'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,