I got started collecting HLs when my wife bought me a Cheryl Spenser Collins Ponce De Leon for my birthday in 1994. I was stationed at the CG Base across the inlet from Ponce Lighthouse during the early 70s. During a trip to Jacksonville, FL I stopped at a gift store and saw a HL Ponce Inlet and the detail was twice as good as the Spencer Collins lighthouse for about half the price. I bought the HLs Ponce, returned the Spenser Collin piece and have never looked back. I started buying HLs from that point on.