Vintage Pencil Sharpeners

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I really wish vintage didn’t apply to things from my childhood. But here we are.
- Yeah, I absolutely grew up with that one on the left...
  
  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
  
  Maybe that upload didn’t work? https://2.bp.blogspot.com/_5u-TAdbgVIw/TT7gIPo5ppI/AAAAAAAAAac/TYnIyahumvk/s1600/DSCN5578.JPG
  
  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.
- The one on the right was in my 70s classrooms. Money says they were the same units from when mom went there.
  
  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.
Hahaha funny funny but this can't be vintage - I actually had one of th
If I had those sharpeners... Then am I vintage? 😳
Don't put your finger, or anyone else's, in one
If the one on the right is the same one we had at home when I was a kid, there should be a lever on the opposite side that pulls up the center of a soft plastic rubber-like piece to act as the world's most useless suction cup.

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