« Reply #52 on: Wednesday 24 February 16 14:15 GMT (UK) »
Of metal workers there were Goldsmiths, Silversmiths and the word that describes people working in other less expensive metals such as brass, bronze, copper, tin, etc is "Tinsmith".
My OH has a Tinsmith in his line who owned a company that manufactured many products such as brass nameplates, miners lamps and other products such as tin tea caddies for Lipmans tea.
A hawker would need a licence and as he doesn't state "street hawker" he may have decided he could make more money selling simple tinware items, such as small tins to hold baccy, door to door, shop to shop. If he's at the very bottom of the trade he could have been fastening two pieces of whittled wood together with strips of tin to make pegs for the washing line.
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