help reading occuption please

[GerryS]

I think "pressing ears for buckets" with the t uncrossed as in "Staffords Bilston" in the following entry.
Gerry

[rosie99]

It looks to me like  Dressing/   Pressing Ears for Buckels (Buckles)   

Rosie 

I don't think it is Pressing - his S's always have a tail on them even in the middle of a word     The First letter could be an O

[JenB]

The First letter could be an O

I'm not so sure - check on how the 'O' of Owen has been written.

Further up the page is a Pharoah White - the 'P' of that is written exactly the same as the initial of the word in question

[Mike in Cumbria]

Pressing ears for buckets sounds likely, and looks good to me. I'm imagining the ears to be where the handle attaches to a metal pail.

http://www.james-hutton-pressings.com/pressings/about_us.htm?gclid=CKaIopuZ2LECFQRTfAodDCAAbQ

[Mike in Cumbria]

Ears on buckets

http://www.alibaba.com/product-gs/481384163/double_ears_stainless_steel_ice_bucket.html

[JenB]

Here's his double s from a different page

[rosie99]

Here's his double s from a different page

Thanks JenB   

[JenB]

Looking through the images his writing isn't always consistent - but here are a couple of definite 'p's' - and the other way he writes an 's' 

[rosie99]

Ears on buckets

http://www.alibaba.com/product-gs/481384163/double_ears_stainless_steel_ice_bucket.html

and another example 

http://www.alibaba.com/showroom/bucket-ear.html