barterer

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The Panamanian antiques were sold to U.S. gun collectors, and Cummings was launched as an international gun barterer.

From Time Magazine Archive

So he reports: and in each other charge Committed to his keeping, play'd the part Of barterer to the height:  with him doth herd The chief of Logodoro, Michel Zanche.

From The Divine Comedy by Dante, Illustrated, Hell, Volume 07 by Cary, Henry Francis

It was but natural in the new state of things that the French trapper, with all his knowledge of forest and stream, should become coureur des bois and voyageur, while the Englishman remained the barterer.

From The Story of the Trapper by Laut, A. C.

Ah! now I know where he goes to pilfer iron filings, which he sells for old papers, that barterer of a Garoffi!

From Cuore (Heart) An Italian Schoolboy's Journal by Hapgood, Isabel Florence

He dwindles now to the mere barterer and so—save for a few chance glimpses—slips out of sight, for his brave days as Imperial Scout are done.

From Pioneers of the Old Southwest: a chronicle of the dark and bloody ground by Skinner, Constance Lindsay