Caulkers sealed spaces between ship boards with cotton to prevent leaks. Sharpeners advertised their knife and scissor sharpening services by playing harmonica in the streets, using a pedal-powered grinding stone. Shoeblacks polished and cleaned shoes. Bird sellers like Vicente In叩cio Martins started as children, with one later depicted in a large 3D mural for his work selling young birds.
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5. Caulker responsible for sealing the spaces between
the boards of the ships with cotton to prevent water
from leaking.
8. The sharpener wandered the streets with a
harmonica advertising his services to customers. His
work tool consisted in a large bicycle wheel rim,
driven by a pedal, which was turning the belt and this,
in turn, was to turn the stone. Thus it gave the
nuisance of knives, scissors and other sharp objects.
13. Bird Seller :
Vicente In叩cio Martins was a child when he started selling
birds. The young birds salesman is now depicted on a wall
about 20 meters high, three-dimensional work with the
signing of Odeith.