Vintage Hand Crank Pencil Sharpener Desk Model

A model of an old crank-operated pencil sharpener. A ribbed cylindrical body sits on a block mount and base, a crank handle with a round grip turns on one end, and a long pencil is shown inserted into the opening at the other. Crank sharpeners with rotating cutters appeared in the late nineteenth century and became a fixture of classrooms and offices for much of the twentieth, usually clamped or screwed to a desk or wall. Generations of pupils queued at one to sharpen their pencils. It makes a…

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