The farriers, knife-makers, locksmiths, chain-forgers, nail-makers, helmet-makers, escutcheon-makers, stonemasons and, aforementioned harness-polishers would gather regularly at their guild halls.

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The authority is also to advise stonemasons and family members that from now on all headstones will have to be fitted to certain specifications to avoid any safety problems.

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Lunchtime is 90 minutes long, and if you eat it here you are surrounded by executives, seamstresses, truck drivers and, at one table, an extended family of rugged Eastern European stonemasons whom Cucinelli has kept more or less constantly at work for years.

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