Vintage 1920's design Chicago buy Automatic Pencil Sharpener with Celluloid Shavings Holder Works Great Art Deco
Amazing vintage pencil sharpener with yellow and green original celluloid.
Amazing vintage pencil sharpener with yellow and green original celluloid shavings holder. In very good condition, especially the celluloid holder. The metal is covered in surface rust but it all works freely. See photos.
This “Chicago” pencil sharpener was made by the Automatic Pencil Sharpener Co. (“ASPCO”) Division of the Spengler-Loomis Mfg. Co in Chicago, Illinois, Patents from 1916 to 1921 are shown on the shaving canister. The "Chicago" design in particular was most popular in the 1910's and 1920's. While all the sharpeners were manual crank-style, they were marketed as “automatic” because the blades would stop cutting buy automatically when the pencil reached a perfect point.