Post 3000 Pencil Pointer
date: label: date made
content: ca 1940
name: label: maker
content: Frederick Post Co.
notes: label: Description
content: This pencil sharpener consists of a flat wooden handle glued to a rectangular pad of sandpaper. The end of the handle has a hole for hanging. The back of the handle has a yellow label marked in black: POST'S (/) CHICAGO (/) No. 3000 (/) PENCIL POINTERS. The Frederick W. Post Co. sold this model of pencil pointer with 12 sheets of flint paper for 9¢ in the 1930s. By 1949, the flint paper was replaced with sandpaper.
label: Description
content: William J. Ellenberger (1908–2008), who owned this object, studied electrical and mechanical engineering at The George Washington University between 1925 and 1934. He then worked for the Potomac Electric Power Company and the National Bureau of Standards. During World War II, he served in the U.S. Army Signal Corps. He was a civilian construction management engineer for the army from 1954 to 1968, when he became a private consultant.
label: Description
content: References: <i>Posts Catalog of Dependable Drawing Materials</i>, 18th ed. (Chicago, 1936), 295; Frederick W. Post Co., <i>Drafting Materials for Engineering, Architecture, and Art</i>, 19th ed. (Chicago, 1949–1950), 96; "The GW Engineering Hall of Fame 2006 Inductees," http://www.weas.gwu.edu/ifaf/hall_of_fame_inductees_2006.php.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Illinois, Chicago
topic: label: Subject
content: Mathematics
label: Subject
content: writing implements
label: Subject
content: Drawing Instruments
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content: Medicine and Science: Mathematics
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content: Pens and Pencils
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content: Science & Mathematics
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of William J. Ellenberger
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1981.0933.16
label: accession number
content: 1981.0933
label: catalog number
content: 1981.0933.16
objectType: label: Object Name
content: pencil pointer
label: Object Name
content: pencil sharpener
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: sandpaper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 18 cm x 3.5 cm x 1 cm; 7 3/32 in x 1 3/8 in x 13/32 in