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 ...

COLFAX, Iowa (KCCI) - A pencil collector in Colfax is rewriting the record books. After an official count done over the summer, Aaron Bartholmey officially has the world’s largest collection of ...

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 ...

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 ...