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JOSEFFY (Joseph Freud). I Am “Japonette” Oversize Blotter. Chicago, 1910s. Large-format pictorial blotter advertising Joseffy’s mechanical effect entitled “I am “Japonette” (an Oriental Incident)”. Replete with photos of the famous mechanician and magician performing the effect in which a tiny table visibly expanded into an enormous Japanese umbrella over six feet in diameter. 4 ¾ x 11 ¼”. Scrapbook remnants to verso. Sold together with an unused Joseffy advertising cover bearing the Steinway Hall address. Only the second example of this blotter we have encountered.