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Loose Model Building Stones

Toy Catalogue
about 1886
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

soft covered booklet with 70 numbered pages, one order form and an illustrated page numbered 56 (there is a page 56 in the appropriate place); printed with text, price lists and illustrations; some in colour. The outer covered of plain buff paper; the booklet appears to have been rebound.

Object details

Object type
TitleLoose Model Building Stones (manufacturer's title)
Materials and techniques
paper printed in colours; letterpress
Brief description
Catalogue and price list of Richter building bricks published in London about 1886
Physical description
soft covered booklet with 70 numbered pages, one order form and an illustrated page numbered 56 (there is a page 56 in the appropriate place); printed with text, price lists and illustrations; some in colour. The outer covered of plain buff paper; the booklet appears to have been rebound.
Dimensions
  • Height: 16.9cm
  • Width: 11.6cm
Production typemass produced
Copy number
E.8609
Marks and inscriptions
  • Leipziger Lehrmittel - Anstalt (Dr Oscar Schneider) Leipzig (bottom of frontispage)
  • R.K.A. 84 (page 2 illustration)
  • F Ad Richter & Co Rudolstadt, Nuremberg, Vienna, Rotterdam, 1 Railway Place, Fenchurch Street, London, EC (title page)
  • Lose Steine E.8609 (title page)
  • Richter's Printing Office, Rudolstadt (page 70)
  • E 8607 (top of order form)
  • Buchdruck der Richterschen Druckerei in Rudolstadt (bottom of last page)
Production
coyright date shown of 1882; illustration dated 1884; edition number may mean Sept 1886.

Reason For Production: retail
Collection
Accession number
B.8-1998

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Record createdJune 15, 1998
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