Object Details
- Manufacturer
- Automatic Pencil Sharpener Company (Apsco)
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Upright roughly rectangular metal container, curved at top and bottom; celulose cover over lower section, with red and black logo showing model name and company name and location; gear-like circular pencil holder on left side, crank on right side; flat, square base with small hole at each corner.
- Credit Line
- Gift of Lucy Commoner
- ca. 1920
- Accession Number
- 2011-54-1
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- appliances & tools
- Decorative Arts
- Object Name
- Pencil sharpener
- Type
- Pencil sharpener
- Medium
- Metal, celulose, painted wood
- Dimensions
- H x W x D: 10.8 x 12.7 x 7 cm (4 1/4 in. x 5 in. x 2 3/4 in.)
- manufactured in
- Rockford, Illinois, USA
- See more items in
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
- Product Design and Decorative Arts Department
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Record ID
- chndm_2011-54-1
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq430fc9d75-483f-4221-b9bf-0e1e88d4f20f
