Building block
F. Ad. Richter and Cie, Rudolstadt, Germany
Category
Toys
Date
Unknown
Materials
Wood, stone and printed paper
Measurements
Box - 351mm length
Place of origin
Rudolstadt
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Sudbury Hall Museum of Childhood, Derbyshire
NT 660330
Summary
A wooden box with a slide off lid decorated with a pasted on paper colour illustration of a bridge over a river and the name 'Richter's Anchor Blocks' with addresses in English, French, Dutch and German. On the inside of the lid is a colour printed paper label depicting the contents. The box contains 127 stone-like building blocks of various shapes and sizes, coloured in red, blue and beige. It appears that this box is incomplete as it does not contain any instruction booklets which other sets do. Total number of items is one hundred and twenty nine
Marks and inscriptions
Top of lid: Richter's/ Anchor Blocks./ Supplement to Anchor Blocks No.5 or 3A./ F.Ad. RICHTER and Cie., Rudolstadt, Nurnberg, Olten, Rotterdam, Wien, Hietzing, St. Petersburg, New York.
Makers and roles
F. Ad. Richter and Cie, Rudolstadt, Germany , manufacturer