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Show Prayer Engraved On Pin MARVELOUS FEAT 1 OF SPOKANE MAN CURIOUS PIECE OP DELICATE ENGRAVING HAS BEEN SHOWN IN THIS CITY, A1 THE PEli-FORMANCE PEli-FORMANCE OF THE FEAT IS ALMOST INCOMPREHENSIBLE. .A marvelous piece of engraving has been shown by M. E. Lundberg of Spokane, who was in ihis city for a few days this week. It coasista of the Lord's prayer engraved on the head of a gold pin, the surface of which is slightly more than half that of an ordinary pin. The wonderful feat was accomplished by his brother, broth-er, Godfred Lundberg, a jeweler and musician of Spokane, and it regarded as the greatest feat of its kind ever attempted. A powerful magnifying glaBS was used in making the engraving and the graver, or tool, which Lundberg used in the performance, required months in the making and has a point that is invisible to the naked eye.The text on the head of the pin is nearly invisible. The pin is mounted in a hermetically sealed tube and placed on a carrier before a strong magnifying magnify-ing glass, where it can readily be read. The 65 words of 254 letters and 19 punctuation marks are perfectly per-fectly formed and through the glass it presents the appearance of a faultless fault-less medallion. The jeweler commenced com-menced work on the pin three years ago, after reading of the same text engraved on a pin in a Philadelphia .musee, but which has three times the surface. He built a special device to clamp his arm and hand, and Jt allowed but the. tips of his fingers to move, and so susceptible was the fine point to vibration that a truck crossing a track two blocks away spoiled one .piece of work of the kind for him. The work was done during the early hours of the morning, and because of the tense nervous strain but two or ; three strokes could be made at a sitting. He figures the work consisted consist-ed of 1863 strokes. Another remarkable feat performed perform-ed by Lundberg was the engraving of the initials "U. S." on the point of an ordinary sewing needle. The wonderfiul piece of work was, shown at the Elite Theatre Tuesday evening. Mr. Lundberg, who la a nephew of Dr. A. Lundberg of Mount Pleasant, is on his way to New York to interest a museum management in the curio. |
