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Full title - Price List of Machine-Dresses Blue Slate, 1908.

Prices and particulars of slates of the Glyn Slate Co. Limited, Glyn, Ruabon, dated 1908. The prices given are for machine dressed ‘blue slates’ in various sizes (ranging from 24’’ x 14’’ to 10’’ x 8’’), and of various quality (‘best’, and ‘second’ quality slates). The price list is printed on purple card, and is folded down the centre. 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.