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Full title - The Maen Offeren Slate Quarry Company Limited.

Prices and particulars of slates of the Maen Offeren Slate Quarry Company Limited, Blaenau Ffestiniog, dated 1915. The prices given are for machines dressed slates in various sizes (ranging from 24’’ x 14’’ to 10’’ x 8’’), and of various quality (‘best old vein’, ‘medium old vein’, and ‘second quality’ slates). Included with the price list is an additional price list for ‘back vein slates’, ranging in size from 24’’ x 14’’ to 10’’ x 8’’. The price list is printed on cream paper, 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.