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 ...

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 ...

“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, ...

THE RECORD BOOKS. I NEVER DREAMED I’D BE GETTING TO THIS POINT. THIS IS KIND OF AMAZING. AARON BARTHELMY WON’T SETTLE WITH BEING NUMBER TWO. HE SAYS HE HAS ABOUT 70,000 WOODEN ADVERTISING PENCILS. THE ...

Tens of thousands of pencils, none of them sharpened, laid across the tables of an Iowa museum earlier this month. Some were held together with rubber bands. Others stood bundled in plastic containers ...