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JEANS, Walter C. (Walter Janes, 1877 – 1942). Group of W.C. Jeans Ephemera. Eleven items, including the prospectus for his Blown to Atoms illusion and a stiff advertising card for the effect, a pamphlet advertising The Silver Hat, Jeans’ letterhead, a cigarette card-size portrait of the magician, two handbills (one advertising Jeans under his birth name of Walter Janes), an advertising slip for The Silver Hat, a small program for the Million Dollar Mystery presented by Selbit, and more. British, 1900 – 20s. The largest 11 x 9”. A good group of uncommon items from the career of the inventor of The Million Dollar Mystery and other innovative effects.