Small Early Richter Stone Anchor Blocks Set with Original (Well Worn) Inserts target pattern well made and very cheerful

well made and very cheerful

with its patch of colorful flame stitching at bottom right

I think it is really beautiful

doesn't come across--but it makes the drawing richer (and the blacks are richer than one has a sense of here

it came--and comes--in a solid wood matte black painted with new cardboard back

Small Early Richter Stone Anchor Blocks Set with Original (Well Worn) Inserts target pattern well made and very cheerfulI love Richter Anchor blocks, but most of the sets one comes across are large ones, which, because the blocks are made of stone (specifically a stone like mixture of quartz sand, chalk and linseed oil) they are heavy, and rather unwieldy! (First produced in Germany in the mid 19th century, the blocks became popular in the 1880s when businessman Friedrich Adolf Richter acquired the rights to the design and began marketing them under his name with that