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Roberts, Robert (1840)

Roberts, Robert

Dolmelynllyn, Merioneth, Wales; furniture maker (fl.1840)

Robert’s ‘factory’ was on the Dolmelynllyn estate on the river Mawddach, a few miles north of Dolgellau. He reputedly had a circular saw of his own invention and sent his finished goods out by river.

Source: Bebb, Welsh Furniture (2007), II, p. 256.