it is a wooden box; cover states : "Honfluere's Colours, prepared for flower, fruit painting, &c, in the english style, with the directions for their use by: (signature) L Honflueres." It continues to read "The colours single or in sets may bee procured from most of the Fancy and Book Stores in New York, also, mixing fluidf put up in large phials. price: 25 cents" There is a symbole above this paragraph that looks like two S"s sideways with like a line going through it or it could ba an R and P sideways.