Small Early Richter Stone Anchor Blocks Set with Original (Well Worn) Inserts people at beach including attempts to trace the

including attempts to trace the mark

with a little minor loss along one edge of the bowl

to my eye at least

looking rather stoic and quite self possessed

I would think based on the color litho lid that these came at least a few decades later (the 4 rows of stars on the flag would suggest pre-1848

Small Early Richter Stone Anchor Blocks Set with Original (Well Worn) Inserts people at beach including attempts to trace theI 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