COLFAX, IOWA (AP) – An Iowa man may be well on his way to an official world record – for pencils. Aaron Bartholmey of Colfax has been collecting wooden advertising pencils since he was a child. Now, he claims to own more than 70,000. That’s substantially more than the Guinness World Record for the largest […]
A man in Colfax, Iowa, Aaron Bartholmey, has been collecting pencils since he was a child and now, with his 70,000-strong collection, he's hoping to break a Guinness World Record.