Casgliadau Arlein

Full title - Price List.

Prices and particulars of slates supplied by the slate merchants Honeywill Brothers, London, dated 1906. Prices are given for ‘permanent blue’ slates from the La Forêt quarries, Angers, France, in various sizes (ranging from 24’’ x 14’’ to 12’’ x 6 ½ ’’). The price list is printed on cream 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. The majority of the price lists (acquired over a number of years) are from Welsh slate quarries; therefore this price list is an interesting comparison as it gives details of slates produced in France.