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.

That’s substantially more than the Guinness World Record for the largest pencil collection of 24,000, which has been held by Emilio Arenas from Uruguay since 2020, the AP also said. Bartholmey said ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“Jimmie” Howard was 8 years old when he began sharing his love of pencils with the world outside Scranton. He was a collector with a cabinet to fill. His dad, James, built it to hold 4,000 pencils, ...

LOGAN, Ohio (WCMH) — A museum regarded as the largest collection of pencil sharpeners in the nation is reopening in Ohio. The Rev. Paul A. Johnson Pencil Sharpener Museum at the Hocking Hills Regional ...

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 ...