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    Convicted forger A. Schiller was serving his time in Sing

    Sing prison in the late 1800s when guards found him dead in

    his cell. On his body they found seven regular straight pins

    whose heads measured the typical 47/1000ths of an inch or

    1.17 millimeters in diameter. Under 500 magnification it was

    found that the tiny etchings seen on the heads of the pins

    were the words to The Lord's Prayer, which is 65 words and

    254 letters long. Of the seven pins, six were silver and one

    was gold - the gold pin's prayer was flawless and a true

    masterpiece. Schiller had spent the last 25 years of his life

    creating the pins, using a tool too small to be seen by the

    naked eye. It is estimated that it took 1,863 sepatate carving

    strokes to make it. Schiller went blind because of his

    artwork.

     

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