This ad appeared in The Scotsman on 10 May 1823. The Scotsman is based in Edinburgh, where presumably this apprenticeship was based out of.
According to data, the average age of apprentices around the 1820s was around 12 (Average ages at apprenticeship, by decade and by location, 1760s to… | Download Scientific Diagram).
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