A brief list.
Mr. Hodgman recommends 30 minutes of writing. I got a bit of a late start, but 22 minutes is like a network half-hour of writing. For your Convenience, A List of Popular Cardboard Box Manufacturers of the Victorian era, in order of preference of the throne:
- Henry Handsome's Handsome Hardy Boxes, LTD
- East India Boxworth & Son Co.
- Jeff's Single Large Box Enterprise
- Martin Luther's 95 Original Box Sizes
- Lafayette's Perfumed Boxerie
- Thaddeus's Famous Cardboard
- Driptight Sealweather Solid Box Industries
- Omnidyne Modern Boxes
- Microsoft not-from-the-future BoxCo.
- The Rootin' Tootin' American Cardboard Boxes of Mr. Samuel C. Houston
- Chulmsby & Horne Boxes of Swiss Design
- Fred's Ordinary Corrugation Box System
- August Anderson's Fantastic Fireproof Paper Safes
- J. Josiah Joseph's Giant Cardboard Contraptions and also Boxes
- Ford
- Cardboard Containers by Henrietta
- The Blacksmith's Buddy(, as seen in The Strand!)
- Hope Chests by Alan Crest
- Cage's Cages
- Burford Blameswatter's Cureall Cardboard Combinations
- The Old English Box Manufacturer of Sussex
- Horrace Rigben
- Herman, Homson, & Goat
- Cobbler's Union #722 local
- Aberdeen Magnificent Boxenmacher
- Mosey Kinds Creedy Boxes
- John Wilkes Box
- The Second Original Church Street Box Foundry
- Bouxchard's
- Smithchester Leeches Chests and Rock Tumblers, LLC
- Irregular Box Builders of Iverness
- A Box For Your Worries Box Shop
- The Rose & Cardboard Box Tavern
- Boxes and Boxes of Sedition
- The Anti-Imperial Box Corporation of "London"