Vintage DUX Pencil Sharpener, Maroon, Made In Germany, Duroplast

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Vintage DUX Single Hole Pencil Sharpener - Made In Germany
Made of Duroplast. One chip in top of tub. Please see pictures.
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Dux make pencil sharpeners. They’ve been doing it for a long time, in Germany, and they’re rather good at it.
Sharpeners in their range include sharpeners fitted into ink bottles and sharpeners in nostalgic Duroplast tubs (
Duroplast
is a close relative of Bakelite).
Duroplast is a composite thermosetting plastic, a close relative of Formica and Bakelite. It is a resin plastic reinforced with fibers (either cotton or wool) making it a fiber-reinforced plastic similar to fiberglass.
Duroplast was used by the German Democratic Republic state-owned automobile manufacturer VEB Sachsenring Automobilwerke Zwickau from 1955 until just after German Reunification in 1991