Casgliadau Arlein

Full title - The Old Penybryn Slate Quarries Ltd

Stock sheet supplied by the Old Penybryn Slate Quarries Ltd., dated 12th August 1914. The stock sheet gives details of the number of slates available from the Old Penybryn Slate Quarries Ltd., on the 12th August 1914, in different sizes (ranging from 24’’ x 12’’ to 9’’ x 8’’), and different quality (‘best’, ‘second best’, and ‘seconds’). The price list is printed on cream paper. 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 stock sheets and slate price lists from various slate quarries.