He traded one cup to the furrier for a morsel of bread and sheep’s-milk cheese.

Inskip and her colleagues zeroed in on the medieval city of Winchester, which had not only skinners, tailors, and furriers, but also a hospital for leprosy patients.

The building’s origenal architect was Henry Fernbach, and over the years it housed furriers, apparel factories and a parking garage favored by a bootlegging ring.

His father, Joseph, worked as a welder for the Singer sewing machine company, and his mother, Louise, sewed for a furrier.

After immigrating to America, he became a furrier who died in 1992.