coppersmith
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thumb|500px|A coppersmith at work in the last workshop of brassware subsisting in Dinant, Belgium thumb|500px| Workshop of a coppersmith in Cloppenburg, Germany; the oldest units are from the period around 1850
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- craft
- Subclass of
- metalworker
- Image
- Ancient Hungarian - traditional coppersmith master at work.jpg
- Field of occupation
- cauldron
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- topic's main category
- Category:Coppersmiths
- Commons category
- Coppersmiths
- female form of label
- calderera
- uses
- copper
- male form of label
- Kupferschmied
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Encyclopedic overview
6 sectionsContents
- History
- Coppersmith trade
- Examples of objects made by modern coppersmiths
- Properties of copper
- Notes
- References
thumb|500px|A coppersmith at work in the last workshop of brassware subsisting in Dinant, Belgium thumb|500px| Workshop of a coppersmith in Cloppenburg, Germany; the oldest units are from the period around 1850
A coppersmith, also known as a brazier, is a person who makes artifacts from copper and brass. Brass is an alloy of copper and zinc. The term "redsmith" is used for a tinsmith that uses tinsmithing tools and techniques to make copper items.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “coppersmith” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.