BEAVERTON -- Pencils in the garage, in the office, in the storage room. Pencils in boxes and tin buckets and plastic drawers. Bill Watson, 90, has collected 73,980 pencils over the past 23 years.

Aaron Bartholmey’s pencil collection is mostly made up of advertising pencils, but he also collects political pencils. “Anything with a date on it really catches my eyes,” he said. When he started ...

Miss Peggy Bennett had a surprise for her first-grade class in 1993. She passed out pencils with colorful designs as Christmas gifts to her students in Albert Lea, Minnesota. The gesture turned a ...

A Colfax man’s collection of nearly 70,000 pencils has been confirmed as a Guinness World Record after being counted in July. Aaron Bartholmey says most of his collection is made up of advertising ...

LARAMIE, Wyo. (AP) - Many people across the world enjoy collecting items. Laramie resident Milton Ontiveroz has a collection that’s almost as unique and funny as the man himself. For the last 23 years ...

Aaron Bartholmey, of Colfax, invited the community to look at his pencil collection as he counted every single one over the summer. At the time, the Guinness World Record for such a collection sat ...

COLFAX, Iowa — A central Iowa man is hoping to erase the world record for the largest pencil collection, the culmination of a hobby that began when he was in the first grade. Bartholmey is hoping to ...

Lidgerwood, North Dakota is the site of a a 43,000 pencil collection started by Roy Kohl during the Depression, now preserved by Ken Clark, who seeks a new home for it. Ken Clark of Lidgerwood, N.D., ...

A central Iowa man hopes to break the Guinness World Record for the largest pencil collection today. Aaron Bartholmey of Colfax estimates he has about 70,000 pencils in his collection, which he’s been ...