Hi
does anyone out there have any idea what a brass plate maker actually did (apart from the obvious!) ? Did they make the engraved brass plates that doctors & lawyers have outside their offices, or was there more to it than that? Also, how did the work of a brass plate maker differ from that of a brass finisher?
My g-g-grandfather's occupation switched back and forth between the two jobs with successive censuses, were they just alternative terms for essentially the same job? It would be nice to know
thanks
Irene
does anyone out there have any idea what a brass plate maker actually did (apart from the obvious!) ? Did they make the engraved brass plates that doctors & lawyers have outside their offices, or was there more to it than that? Also, how did the work of a brass plate maker differ from that of a brass finisher?
My g-g-grandfather's occupation switched back and forth between the two jobs with successive censuses, were they just alternative terms for essentially the same job? It would be nice to know
thanks
Irene