Wow, I found a neat example of James W. Zaharee's "miniature writing" last week! A single rice grain, centered and sealed on a business card, and dating back to 1936 (as apparently featured at the Three Expositions by Robert L. Ripley, believe it or not!), this grain is made out to one, Judy Goley, who appears to have lived just a hop, skip, and jump over the Mighty Mississippi from me in Dupo, IL! It's super tiny, but not as tiny as Zaharee was much more well known for. Quite the celebrity back in the day, Zaharee used a magnifying glass and crow-quill pens (with the points ground down to 1/24th the width of a human hair!) to write extremely small. He's probably most well known for writing 20,000 letters on the back of a postage stamp, which included the Gettysburg Address and the alphabet 30 times each! Believe it or not, again!
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I would also like to point out that the abbreviation of Illinois is IL, not ILL, so maybe this piece takes the World's Record for smallest typo ever... lol
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