19th Century Welsh Slate Splitters Stool

£675.00

Height 74 cm
Width 37 cm
Depth 37 cm

A 19th Century oak slate splitters stool from Wales. Used in a quarry for refining slate into thinner slabs during the splitting process. Of very primitive nailed construction. Deeply worn through decades of use. An atmospheric piece of vernacular Welsh history.

Height 74 cm
Width 37 cm
Depth 37 cm

A 19th Century oak slate splitters stool from Wales. Used in a quarry for refining slate into thinner slabs during the splitting process. Of very primitive nailed construction. Deeply worn through decades of use. An atmospheric piece of vernacular Welsh history.

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