Small Early Richter Stone Anchor Blocks Set with Original (Well Worn) Inserts green eyes satiny black

satiny black

not especially interested in folk art

ME in a frame painted in the manner of a 19th c

Plus this terrific incorporation of blue and red knit to make a sort of vest

The painterly red collar

Small Early Richter Stone Anchor Blocks Set with Original (Well Worn) Inserts green eyes satiny blackI 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