tinsmith

He worked for a while as a tinsmith in his father's foundry before moving to Edinburgh to study and then pursue an acting career.

Now about fifteen years old—too young to be emancipated under Pennsylvania law—Isaac was apprenticed to a tinsmith, a Philadelphia Quaker.

And here is love like a tinsmith’s scoop sunk past its gleam in the meal-bin.

"Unlike homemade counterparts or local tinsmith's wares, these tools depicted highly stylized images, often drawn from secular themes or with subject's designed specifically to hang on the Christmas trees."

They rented them to blue-collar workers such as tinsmiths, printers and chauffeurs.