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  The facts and statistics make the work even more astounding: sheets of gold rolled three times thinner than cigarette paper; gold granules .008 of an inch in diameter applied with a one haired brush; and 78,000 gold beads encrusting the surface of a single object. Such precise, almost microscopic work requires not only concentration but also the aid of forty-power surgical binoculars that Brush regularly wears.

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