The first hole shaves the wood and exposes the graphite lead core, which is then sharpened to a super-fine point by the second hole. Handmade in Germany, where it is also known as the 'Meisterwerk', this precision sharpener features a two-step sharpening process. Planner Stickers, Pens, Stamps, and MoreĬreate incredibly sharp and precise pencil points with the KUM Masterpiece handheld pencil sharpener.Japanese Stationery: What's the Big Deal?.The Difference Between Ballpoint, Gel, and Rollerball Pens.

Violated your copyright, please email the curator so we can resolve the matter. Office Museum and provide a link or our web address ( or If you believe that we have not given appropriate credit for your work or have Non-infringing use of information from this web site, please cite the Early In some cases, images belong to someone else, and we cannot give Publications, in direct mailing material, on web sites, in auction listings, orĪnywhere else without written permission from the Curator. Second, you must not violate our copyright, which means you may not use any images or text from the Early Office Museum web site in Is the act of passing off as your own the words, photographs, or other work of All rights are reserved.įirst, you must not plagiarize our material. New York, NY, and Budweis, Austria (now Czech Republic)Īll material on the Early Office Museum web site is copyrighted. Shavings receptacle and celluloid cutter housing not shown in top photo. The two Avanti pencil sharpeners to the right have different labels.Īdvertised 1915 onward for many years (at least until 1936) with model changesġ915 Price $1 (postpaid) 'The price permits one in the home.' Many machines with this cutting system were produced in Germany andĮlsewhere on the European continent in the 1920s-1960s. The 1909 (Germany), 1910 & 1912 (UK), and 1913 (US) patents are the same as those for the Right Pencil Sharpener, which ~ Advertised 1914-39 with variations (Germany) Image courtesy of An earlier Matador model was introduced c. This is a coin-operated Stewart Pencil Sharpener with self-feeder, mounted onĪdvertised 1914 onward for many years (at least until 1936) with model changesĪdvertised 1914 onward for many years with model changes The machine was marketed in 1914 without this adapter. In front of the aperture for use in sharpening thin pencils. The 1915 model in the photo to the right has an adapter that can be positioned Photograph courtesy of The Porter-Cable Collector Patented 1914 (UK) ~ Advertised 1914 (US)

There is also a machine labeled Climax No. Stolzenburg pencil sharpener is similar or identical.Ĭourants were produced in several other slightly different shapes,Īnd were probably marketed with other brand names, Those patents were purchased from the Olcotts.Įarly Courants are made of steel while late ones are made of aluminum, according to The Machine lists a 1901 patent, but no machines were produced by BostonĪPSCO lists 1900-06 patents on this and many of its other machines Middle photograph courtesy of Howard Levin Middle and bottom machine: Patented 1913 (Germany, by C. Patented 1910 (Germany & UK, by Peerless Whittler Co. Peerless Whittler Co., New York, NY (1910) Stamp below and 1910 ad bottom right show model with disk milling cutter. Shows model with circular cutter with six Photograph top right, courtesy of The Gemmary, The ad states: 'Where it is desired to have it portable, an enamelled stand is provided for fifty cents additional.' Without the stand, the Knife Blade was $3. 1913.) The Knife Blade pictured in the ad is identical to the Premier except that at the bottom instead of a clamp there is a base that stands on a desk. However, we have found one advertisement for a Knife Blade Automatic ( System, Sept. We have found no advertisement for the Premier. National Specialty Sales Co., New Haven, CT (Knife Blade)

Patented 1910 ~ Advertised 1913 (Knife Blade) Early Office Museum Mechanical Pencil Sharpener Gallery

Mechanical pencil sharpener