Tile Tenter

[Corryn]

Original

[JenB]

To me it reads Tile Felter, but I actually think she's a tile fetler, I think the cross stroke of the 't' is offset onto the 'l'.

Dictionary of Occupational Terms

edger, tile edger ; fettler, tile fettler, finisher
trims edges of tiles, and smoothes out slight defects with a palette knife, also removes excess of glaze from tiles after dipping; cf. ware cleaner (118).

[Corryn]

JenB

Fetler sounds good.
I was beginning to think it was setter.

Thank you everyone for your input
Corryn

[MaureeninNY]

 

I'd say Jen's got it.

Much better than my staring at it and thinking "Why would someone be tasting tiles?".

Well done!

Maureen

[JenB]

If you look at the capital letters of each word it's clear that the capital letter on the second word has a horizontal stroke going through it near the bottom, which makes it an 'F' rather than a 'T'. There are other examples of this way of writing 'F' on the same page.