Today we learnt what a whitesmith is as part of our Early Canterbury research. Mr Joseph Free worked as a whitesmith when he arrived in Christchurch. Here is a definition of what a whitesmith is:
A whitesmith is a person who works with "white" or light-colored metals such as tin and pewter. While blacksmiths work mostly with hot metal, whitesmiths do the majority of their work on cold metal (although they might use a forge to shape their raw materials).
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