1840 Planten's NY Gelatine Capsules Box - with Capsule Inside! red tractor like a little window to

like a little window to the larger landscape on the other side

with the red painted first then the black around it

living in Greenwich Village until his death in 1879

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

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

1840 Planten's NY Gelatine Capsules Box - with Capsule Inside! red tractor like a little window toI'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,