Because a miniature is just not enough

These miniatures are the Tower Bridge and the Eiffel Tower. I got the Tower Bridge from a girl I am friends with who visited London and I picked up the Eiffel Tower in Paris. They are both extremely cheap quality and cost wise. They are both pencil sharpeners. I always find it interesting that many miniature building double as something else. It is almost as if they are not worthy on their own as just souvenirs. They have to have a secondary purpose. The Tower Bridge is plastic and the Eiffel Tower is some kind of really cheap metal. I have never sharpened a pencil with either of them.

Of course:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eiffel_Tower

and

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tower_Bridge