Vintage Dux Pencil

Vintage DUX Single Hole Pencil Sharpener - Made In Germany Made of Duroplast. One chip in top of tub. Please see pictures. ** Free shipping. 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