Pin art

I found an interesting item while I was looking up my vocabulary words this weekend. Its almost too hard to believe!

Convicted forger A. Schiller was serving his time in SingSing prison in the late 1800s when guards found him dead inhis cell. On his body they found seven regular straight pinswhose heads measured the typical 47/1000ths of an inch or1.17 millimeters in diameter. Under 500 magnification it wasfound that the tiny etchings seen on the heads of the pinswere the words to The Lord's Prayer, which is 65 words and254 letters long. Of the seven pins, six were silver and onewas gold - the gold pin's prayer was flawless and a truemasterpiece. Schiller had spent the last 25 years of his lifecreating the pins, using a tool too small to be seen by thenaked eye. It is estimated that it took 1,863 sepatate carvingstrokes to make it. Schiller went blind because of hisartwork.