Building block
Anchor
Category
Toys
Date
Unknown
Materials
Wood, stone and paper
Measurements
Box – 383 mm (length); 276 mm (width); 114 mm (height), Brick –13 mm (min. length); 75 mm (max. length); 13 mm (min. width); 63 mm (max. width); 6 mm (min. height); 26 mm (max. height)
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Sudbury Hall Museum of Childhood, Derbyshire
NT 661965
Summary
A set of Anchor building bricks with their original box. The box is made of wood, and has no lid, although there is a groove near the top which suggests a sliding one. The box has a colour-printed paper label on the side which has 'Anchor Box Anker Baukasten' in a very ornate border. The box and label are very dirty and battered. In the base of the box is a paper label printed in English and German, but this is very dirty and crumbling. The bricks themselves are made from light polished stone with chamfered edges - mostly very pale, almost white, or dark red, but there are several blue-grey pieces. They are in a large range of sizes but are mostly rectangular, with some square, some triangular and some arch-shaped with the brick detail carved in. Many of the blue-grey bricks are unusual geometric shapes. A few of the bricks have small pieces chipped off; some are broken in half and most are quite dirty. Total number of items is 341.
Provenance
Donated to the Museum of Childhood by Mrs Lesley Boddy in September 1987.
Makers and roles
Anchor, maker