IN MINIATURE

Auckland Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue 302, 21 December 1943, Page 2

IN MINIATURE

LETTERS TO FRIENDS PAPAKURA MAN'S HOBBY From the germ of an idea, which came to him a few years ago, Mr. Arthur Richardson, of Papakura, has developed a hobby that is still miniature in one sense, but has grown to grand proportions. It concerns the writing of small letters. Mr. Richardson made a miniature barber's pole for a lady friend and he wanted a small letter to accompany it. He therefore wrote one on a sheet of paper, an inch and a half long by three-quarters of an inch Avide, and put it in an envelope one inch by three-quarters of an inch in size. The letter was written with a mappins? pen under a 4in lens. Over 100 of these miniatures have been written and sent to all parts of the world, and requests have come from all quarters for them. The stamps are made from the numerals of a 2d used stamp. Some have late fee stamps attached, and all are postmarked. For mailing the miniatures are enclosed in ordinary letters. Some censors may have to use special glasses to read the small writing, but anyone with ordinarily good sight can read them without artificial aid, for the wording is written very clearly.