J.C. Mossop, Tinsmith

John C. Mossop was a tinsmith who worked for a hardware dealer, Jacob C. Koelsch at 2 Main Street in 1893.  My guess is that earlier he was in the stove and/or hardware business himself, judging from the years on the back of this card/calendar and his own name stamped on the front.  The 1880 census lists him as a hardware merchant so this seems to fit.  Per that year's census, Mr. Mossop was born in 1846 in England, had a wife named Eliza, and their four children aged 4-12 and his mother were members of his household.   

This beautiful advertising card, complete with the pocket calendar on the back, espoused the values of the Acorn stove from the firm of Rathbone, Sard, and Company.  The stove pictured above is an 1886 model, here represented on another advertising card.  You'll notice it is shaped like an acorn.