office
Pawnshop Appraiser
appraiser
also: оценщик, otsenshchik
The employee of a private pawnshop (ссудная касса) responsible for valuing pledged goods; the story's narrator holds this post and also sleeps in the storeroom as a night watchman.
Reading notes
- A Dream §10 appraiser in the pawnshop
The oценщик (appraiser) at a ssudnaya kassa valued goods brought in as pledges for small loans; the position put the narrator in intimate, morally compromising contact with the poverty of everyone who pawned something.