(1) He traveled the colonies, from New York to Maryland, cleaning timepieces, working as a tinsmith , and barely keeping beyond the reach of his creditors.(2) Robert Stevenson's father-in-law and step-father were the same person, one Thomas Smith, a tinsmith who invented and manufactured lamp-light reflectors.(3) He was a student at Manchester Road Secondary School (now Bedford High) and became an apprentice tinsmith at the Albion Works before joining the Grenadier Guards towards the end of the war in 1945.(4) Apprentice blacksmiths learned their trade in the school of hard knocks, as did the tinsmith , whose workshops can be seen opposite the museum's smithy, alongside those of the shoemaker and cooper.(5) Danny, who spent nearly twenty years in Faha, was gifted as a tinsmith and many a household has evidence of his craftsmanship.(6) In the eighteenth century, it was inhabited by tinsmiths from the Auvergne, masons from the Limousin, stonecutters from Normandy and woodworkers from Savoy.(7) A hot day over a soldering copper is thirsty work, which the tinsmiths were able to remedy.(8) Stenciling could also be learned on the job, for cabinetmakers and tinsmiths frequently employed girls and young women to decorate furniture and tinware.(9) The cloth-bound compilation shows turners, coppersmiths, tinsmiths , gun fitters, engine fitters and radio mechanics hard at work, including a large number of women training as fitters, turners and welders.(10) And later: ‘The poorest people, the tailors and tinsmiths , the ones without hope, are so much nobler, more generous and more intelligent than the people who've somehow managed to lay by a few provisions.’(11) Greater problems were posed by specialists such as sheet metal workers, welders, and tinsmiths who were in short supply.(12) Of less stature were the tinsmiths , who made lanterns, bugles, trumpets, military ornaments, and funils widely used during carnival.(13) Among the post's 631 men were bakers, blacksmiths, bricklayers, carpenters, masons, painters, plasterers, plumbers, saddlers, tinsmiths , and wheelwrights.(14) In the mid-1850s, tinsmiths applied their skills to the toy industry, creating durable, lightweight, mass - produced toys.(15) Workers in this informal sector include tinsmiths , seamstresses, bakers, carpenters, and peddlers.(16) Among the tinsmiths , the tradition has been established to make a pint mug out of which the makers can have a beer at the end of the day.
