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pencil sharpener
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Northamptonshire County Council, Julie Cassidy, 2012-02-17 18:11:03
Title
pencil sharpener
Description
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A complete Modern cast-lead pencil sharpener of 19th century date (c. 1850-c. 1900).
The lower part is hollow and cone-shaped to house the pencil. It has a rim at the base and a vertical slot at one side. On the opposite side of the slot there is a raised cartouche or similar feature with the initials SO. The decorative handle end is sub-triangular in plan and pointed in side view. Two scrolls rise from each side of the cone to form a six-sided opening. The scrolls support a scallop-like feature which has an almost similar design on each face with a circular hole at the base. One of the scallop-like faces has indeterminate symbols which are possibly Chinese and a makers mark.

This sharpener has a buff patina and shows little signs of wear. The iron cutting blade is missing.

Similar pencil sharpeners have been recorded on the Portable Antiquities Scheme database. See finds: HAMP1653; HAMP-3334; NARC-E4E785 and NARC-52E1F8.

According to Wikipedia:
'Bernard Lassimone, a French mathematician, applied for the first patent (French patent #2444) on pencil sharpeners in 1828. In 1847,Therry des Estwaux invented the manual pencil sharpener' (accessed 09/08/2011).
Depicted place (County of findspot) Northamptonshire
Date between 1847 and 1930
date QS:P571,+1500-00-00T00:00:00Z/6,P1319,+1847-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1930-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Accession number
FindID: 489415
Old ref: NARC-E97244
Filename: NARC-E97244 b.jpg
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The Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS) is a voluntary programme run by the United Kingdom government to record the increasing numbers of small finds of archaeological interest found by members of the public. The scheme started in 1997 and now covers most of England and Wales. Finds are published at https://finds.org.uk
Source https://finds.org.uk/database/ajax/download/id/370670
Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/370670/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine
Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/489415
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Object location52° 08′ 04.2″ N, 0° 59′ 59.15″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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