Building block
Dr. Richter's Art-Department
Category
Toys
Date
circa 1910
Materials
Wood
Measurements
351 mm (length of box); 235mm (width of box); 50 mm (height of box); 25 - 100 mm (length of blocks); 12 - 75 mm (width of blocks); 5 - 50mm (height of blocks)
Place of origin
Rudolstadt
Order this imageCollection
Sudbury Hall Museum of Childhood, Derbyshire
NT 659974
Summary
A wooden box with a slide off lid decorated with a pasted on paper colour illustration of a bridge over a river. Beneath this are descriptions and addresses printed in English, French, Dutch and German. On the inside of the lid is a colour printed paper label depicting the contents. The box contains Richter's Anchor Blocks - 95 stone-like building blocks of various shapes and sizes, coloured in red, blue and beige. Also in the box is an instruction booklet printed in English, French and German, illustrated in colour with models that can be built using the blocks. Total number of items is ninety eight
Marks and inscriptions
Bottom of label on lid: F.AD. RICHTER AND Cie, RUDOLSTADT, NURNBERG, OLTEN, ROTTERDAM, WIEN. Left hand side of front cover of instructions: Richter's Designs for Architectural Models/ No. 1/ First Stage for building with stones of the large Calibre. (Size of cube - 1 in.)/ Composed and executed by Dr. Richter's Art-Department, Rudolstadt (Germany).
Makers and roles
Dr. Richter's Art-Department, maker