World's Most Expensive Needle

Who would have ever thought that one needle would fetch a jaw breaking price of up to $300,000. Willard Wigan is one of the few in the earth that made it happen.

A closer look at the eye of the needle with a microscope revealed that this is not any ordinary needle. There's a miniature sculpture of Snow White and the seven dwarfs, all fitted inside the pin head and including a witch nearby. Without the microscope, it looks nothing more than a speck of dust wedged in the eye of the needle. This speck, though, took more than three months to make it.

Other works by Wigan include a miniature model of Auguste Rodin's The Thinker - fitted on a pin head - and a model of The Last Supper, complete with 12 disciples. His tiniest piece up to date is a Scottish terrier standing on the point of an acupuncture needle; while his next project is to create a Little Red Riding Hood so small she could be gobbled up not just by a wolf but by a flea.

Wigan's ultimate wish as he told is that one day, he's going to do the Queen in her Coronation Coach with all the horses, too

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