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Six pencil sharpeners once lined a bathroom windowsill above Landis Blair’s toilet. According to Blair, he had found them scattered among his art supplies in 2014 and put them on display in an apartment with little decoration. Ten years later, his collection had grown to more than 400 unique handheld sharpeners. He has now packed them into boxes, and says the apartment feels empty without them.
His rules make the collection more particular than its size suggests. Blair rejects any sharpener that holds its own shavings, along with anything he considers a novelty item. In his telling, that excludes souvenir sharpeners shaped like Abraham Lincoln or the Liberty Bell. It is a curious way to look at an ordinary tool: a design meant to make sharpening tidier would not qualify. Among the sharpeners he kept, what differences made each one worth collecting?
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- How did Blair’s collection grow beyond 400 unique sharpeners? : Still exploring
- What designs meet his two rules for inclusion? : Still exploring
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