Casgliadau Arlein

Full title - Pen-yr-Orsedd Slates.

Prices and particulars of slates of the Pen-yr-Orsedd Slate Quarry Company Ltd, Dyffryn Nantlle, dated 1st January 1914. The prices given are for slates in various sizes (ranging from 30’’ x 16’’ to 8’’ x 8’’), and of various quality (‘best’, ‘second best’, and ‘seconds’ quality slates). The price list also gives details of slates that could be purchased by the ton - ‘princesses’ and ‘writing slate blocks’. The price list is printed on cream paper, and is folded down the centre. An image of a roofing slate is printed in colour on the front of the price list. 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.