The Cutler. Knife blades are shaped at forge in background and sharpened on grindstone turned by wheel operated by boy on right. Handles would be attached and finished knives would be presented in fitted wooden box on table at left. Hand-coloured woodcut from "The Book of English Trades" 1823

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