A merchant is a person who trades in commodities produced by other people, especially one who trades with foreign countries. Historically, a merchant is anyone who is involved in business or trade. Merchants have operated for as long as industry, commerce, and trade have existed. In 16th-century Europe, two different terms for merchants emerged: meerseniers referred to local traders and koopman referred to merchants who operated on a global stage, importing and exporting goods over vast distances and offering added-value services such as credit and finance.
Merchants from Holland and the Middle East trading.
A scale or balance is often used to symbolise a merchant
Costumes of merchants from Brabant and Antwerp, engraving by Abraham de Bruyn, 1577
Phoenician merchants traded across the entire Mediterranean region
A baker is a tradesperson who bakes and sometimes sells breads and other products made of flour by using an oven or other concentrated heat source. The place where a baker works is called a bakery.
A U.S. Navy baker aboard the USS John C. Stennis aircraft carrier moves a tray of hot, freshly baked rolls onto a cooling rack.
The Baker (c. 1681); oil-on-canvas painting by Job Adriaensz Berckheyde (1630–1693) now held by the Worcester Art Museum.
A medieval baker and his apprentice
A traditional baker in Poland removes fresh bread from an oven with a long wooden peel and places it on a cooling rack
