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Penrhyn slate quarry, printing plate
unknown
(Manufacturer)
A rectangular copper printing plate with an image of a run of slate wagons engraved in reverse. The printing plate is mounted on a rectangular block of wood.
The image is featured in Penrhyn Quarry’s marketing brochure, ‘The Penrhyn Quarry. Illustrated’, 1913, and is titled ‘A slate ‘run’ leaving the quarry’.
Collection Area
Industry
Item Number
2015.47/2
Historical Associations
Association Type: Slate quarries
Place: Penrhyn slate quarry
Creation/Production
Acquisition
donation, 13/5/2015
Measurements
Length
(mm): 181
Width
(mm): 131
Height
(mm): 22
Weight
(g): 644
Material
Copper
Wood
Location
In store
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