Bronze Age Gold from Wales

Pen-yr-Orsedd Slate Quarry Co. Ltd., price list

Full title - Pen-yr-Orsedd Slates.

Prices and particulars of slates of the Pen-yr-Orsedd Slate Quarry Company Ltd, Dyffryn Nantlle, dated 1st January 1914. The prices given are for slates in various sizes (ranging from 30’’ x 16’’ to 8’’ x 8’’), and of various quality (‘best’, ‘second best’, and ‘seconds’ quality slates). The price list also gives details of slates that could be purchased by the ton - ‘princesses’ and ‘writing slate blocks’. The price list is printed on cream paper, and is folded down the centre. An image of a roofing slate is printed in colour on the front of the price list. The donor’s family were timber merchants in Taunton, Somerset. They supplied timber and slate to local builders and merchants, and as a result acquired a collection of slate price lists.

Collection Area

Industry

Item Number

2010.5/20

Acquisition

Donation, 1/2/2010

Measurements

folded (mm): 286
folded (mm): 223
unfolded (mm): 286
unfolded (mm): 445

Material

paper

Location

In store
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