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Subject: Re: [MON] Job description?
Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2007 13:20:54 -0500

Stock takers/stock-takers/stocktakers worked in the iron and tin works.
Here's one description I was able to pull from books.google.com -

"... a stocktaker, who superintended the making up of the
pig beds and the disposal of the pig iron and slag.."

The above description is from "The British Iron & Steel Industry: A
Technical History," by Walter Keith Vernon Gale.

In the U.S. in the 1830s for example, a "stocktaker" in an iron foundry
was responsible for keeping the forges supplied with iron and charcoal.

Kathy Judge Nemaric

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