Vintage Pencil Sharpeners

I think I bought the one on the left at some point in my life.

Thankfully the one on the right looks like it pre-dates the ones we used in elementary school…

Definitely those were in every classroom when I was little, but my dad had one of these bad boys at home, I remember the weird ears things on top.https://lemm.ee/pictrs/image/de84e279-3106-42b0-b17c-fe61283e73fb.webp

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I would just feed pencils into it until they were tiny stubs.

I grew up with the one on the right, and taught with the one on the left. The wall-crank one was better: it takes any size pencil, even the fat red ones, it's quieter, and it gives you a nice long break over by the coat closet rather than <5 seconds up front at the teacher's desk.

They have the look of something from the early 20th century. That's how I always imagined them, as if my classroom had previously been a one-room schoolhouse.