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A flaming passion: Ex-miner creates everyday replicas with matches

(Agencies) Updated: 2016-05-11 14:04 Comments


A flaming passion: Ex-miner creates everyday replicas with matches
A guitar made from matchsticks by Janusz Urbanski is pictured at his flat in Ruda Slaska, Poland May 4, 2016. [Photo/Agencies]

"I wanted to make a big boat to commemorate her," he said. "Maybe this is the biggest ship made from matchsticks."

Urbanski has also made a replica of part of the Great Wall of China, which took him several months and around 150,000 matches. He also has replicas of the Eiffel Tower, Golden Gate Bridge, a soccer stadium, truck and small house.

A local celebrity, he likes to make the sculptures as gifts and rarely sells them.

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