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Antique Mechanical Pencil Sharpener Gallery
 ~ 1920-1950s ~

We have excluded from this exhibit machines that use two planetary cylindrical cutters because these differ only in appearance from machines in the exhibit covering the 1910s.  As a result, most of the machines from the 1920s-1950s in this exhibit are from Continental Europe.

Model, Year, Maker	Click Image to Enlarge
Graffco Pencil Sharpener Advertised 1920 George B. Graff Co. Boston, MA The Graff Co. was licensed by F. S. Webster Co. to use its 1910 patent for the Webster Pencil Sharpener.
Graffco Pencil Sharpener Advertised 1921-27 George B. Graff Co. Boston, MA
DIMA Pencil Sharpener Patented 1921 Tavannes Watch Co. Tavannes, Switzerland
Iduna Pencil Sharpener Patented 1921-22 ~ Advertised 1922-39 Idea AG Leipzig, Germany Photograph courtesy of Rev. Donald Lindgren
S.A.A.D Pencil Sharpener (top) (a.k.a. Royal Sovereign Pencil Sharpener (bottom)) Patented 1922 (UK), 1923 (US) Societé Anonyme Anciens Ateliers A. Dandrieux Paris, France
Olympic Pencil Sharpener J. M Paillard France Photograph courtesy of Jim Gehring
Pencil Sharpener Continental Europe
Mignon Pencil Sharpener Germany
Pencil Sharpener Continental Europe
Granate No. 8 Pencil Sharpener Continental Europe
Apollo Pencil Sharpener Advertised 1931 Johann Faber Germany
Raymond Loewy Pencil Sharpener Patented 1934 U.S. Photograph courtesy of Christie's
Pointmaster Pencil Sharpener Patented 1936 Marble Co. Chicago, IL Also produced with a chrome-plated housing.
Trido Pencil Sharpener Advertised 1934-39 Germany
Trioh Pencil Sharpener Advertised 1939 Wulff & Sager Hamburg, Germany
Monkwell Pencil Sharpener (a.k.a. Studium Pencil Sharpener, Neo Derby 795 Pencil Sharpener)  Advertised 1939 (Monkwell in U.K.) Hungary Photograph courtesy of Rev. Donald Lindgren
Iduna II Pencil Sharpener Dahle Germany
Wyna Pencil Sharpener (a.k.a. Caran d'Ache Pencil Sharpener) Injecta Switzerland
Alfred Ernst Pencil Sharpener Alfred Ernst Switzerland

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