1840 Planten's NY Gelatine Capsules Box - with Capsule Inside! red tractor 16 3/4” l x 1

16 3/4” l x 1 5/16” wide and deep and in very good condition

What I love most about her are her very large feet

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

living in Greenwich Village until his death in 1879

Equally curious is the text hand-written on the back of another: "Of Mr MacVaugh I sing this song / His soul is weary for the day's been long / I'm sure you'll think the question fair / Now tell me what he's doing there

1840 Planten's NY Gelatine Capsules Box - with Capsule Inside! red tractor 16 3/4” l x 1I'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,