But, being a Londoner, he was more probably a gold-beater, or perhaps.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Romance of Names] Reference

Heine family must once have lived, a gold-beater and a frame-maker displayed their signs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Their Silver Wedding Journey — Complete] Reference

(It had been previously used to advertise a blacksmith, a gold-beater, and a stone-mason.).    From Wordnik.com.  [Mr. Jack Hamlin's Mediation] Reference

He had experienced the common lot of young artists in those days, and had been apprenticed to a gold-beater, but preferred the profession of painter.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fra Bartolommeo] Reference

A gold-beater, named Crozier, one of those prison-murderers, bared his sinewy arm and boasted of having killed four thousand persons with his own hands.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 10] Reference

At the age of twenty he abandoned his calling of gold-beater, in which he had been employed up to that time; and he learnt the first rudiments of painting in the workshop of Cosimo.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects Vol. 04 (of 10), Filippino Lippi to Domenico Puligo] Reference

Here was the strong arm of the law, coming down with twenty gold-beater force, upon two offenders from the metropolis itself; the mighty engine was directed by their own magistrate, and worked by their own officers; and both the criminals, by their united efforts, were securely shut up, in the narrow compass of one sedan-chair.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Pickwick Papers] Reference

A time the rubber or rag may be sold to the gold-beater, who recovers the gold.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bookbinding, and the Care of Books A handbook for Amateurs, Bookbinders & Librarians] Reference

And health the best gold-beater.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fringilla: Some Tales In Verse] Reference

A gold-beater from.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gänsemännchen. English] Reference

Germany I took a few lessons each of a bookbinder, a glassblower, a shoemaker, a plumber, and a blacksmith, and here I have learned in a crude way the technique of the gold-beater and old-fashioned broom-maker, etc., none of which come amiss in the laboratory; and I am proud that I can still mow and keep my scythe sharp, chop, plow, milk, churn, make cheese and soap, braid a palm-leaf hat complete, knit, spin and even "put in a piece" in an old-fashioned hand loom, and weave frocking.    From Wordnik.com.  [Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene] Reference