Málaga's giant stamp mosaic seeks to beat world record
Tuesday, November 11, 2014 @ 12:53 PM
THE world's largest mosaic made of postage stamps may have made it to the Guinness Book of Records – but the 3,100 people in Málaga who helped to create it are now waiting with bated breath to see whether they have reached their goal.
A total of 230,000 original postage stamps were stuck down by adults and children in the Costa del Sol capital's José María Martín Carpena sports centre on Saturday on a strip of paper 220 square metres in size.
The entire process took 22 hours, spread over two days, with the average participant – two-thirds of whom were school children – laying 74.2 stamps.
Now it is completed, the mosaic depicts the letter 'Ñ', in upper case – a letter which is unique to the Spanish-language alphabet and considered to be a symbol of Spain and its former colonies.
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