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07/11/2008: "A. Schiller"

Convicted forger A. Schiller was serving 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 separate
carving strokes to make it. Schiller went blind because of his artwork.