Tinker

A tinker exerts a flick craft activity by repairing certain kettle for boiling and resulting holes mends.

History

The Krünitzlexikon describes the tinkers as "a kind of coppersmiths who move with old copper and their hand tools in the country, and especially the country people, or in such Oertern where no ordinary coppersmiths are located, the defective become boilers and other like unitH mend or repair. They push commonly in the cities on the streets around, and cries of from their work. The right and hearty coppersmiths but they keep to troublemakers and bungler. "

The blacksmith's guild sat partly by regulations that banned the tinkers mending in places with branches of coppersmiths. In Southeastern Europe, the repair of metal kitchen utensils was also a specialty of certain Roma groups.

Designations

Regional Flick the craftsmen were called Stöer. Even Better boiler, Kesselbüßer, Kessellapper, in Low German also Ketelflicker, Ketellapper, Pottlapper. In the UK and parts of Ireland, the foreign term " Tinker " goes for the coming of the majority population of minority Pavee back to the repair work with the material tin (English tin ). In Austria, the term " tinkers " for tinkers, sieves was used.

How scissors grinder, coppersmiths, broom makers and other craftsmen they pulled carts with living and family from place to place. They camped beside the villages and taught there one their workshops and fireplaces.

Did they go into the villages, so they gathered there the need of repair pots and pans and soldered holes again, the thickened vessel heads back to the boiler or tinned new. Today the craft in Europe is only exercised in Romania of Roma.

Others

From this profession also several phrases derive: " The curses / drinks like a tinker " or " The beat / fight like the tinkers ". Both want to say that one particularly loud, vulgar or excessive cursing, booze, strikes or disputes. The word Katzelmacher ( disrespectfully for " Southerners " ) is therefore likely to be in contact.

Franz Lehár's operetta The Rastelbinder plays in the rural milieu of tinkers and traveling craftsmen in a Slovak village.