To make easily and surely catchable the paper end without lifting a lid plate or rotating roll paper in order to catch the paper end of the roll paper.

This holder is provided with the lid plate 5 provided with a paper cutting part 5c on the tip end whose base end part is freely turnably supported at the supporting plate side upper end of a side plate 3 and an auxiliary flap 6 disposed on the tip part side of the lid plate whose one side is turnably supported and other side is energized so as to be turned in the downward direction and opened for a prescribed angle by a spring member. Then, it is provided with at least one lever 9 turnably supported to the side plate and provided with a guide part 9a extended in the vertical direction in a tapered shape in the upward direction, a paper tube holder fixed to the lever and provided with flexibility capable of holding the paper tube of the roll paper whose tip is diameter-reduced and an engaging part 5d provided on the side part of the lid plate and engaged with the guide part of the lever capable of moving inside the guide part.