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PINXYMakers of America\'s Finest . . . Non Better - 1261 N. Wells St., Chicago, Ill.
Original vintage ink blotter in very good condition.
Please note - light creases - see scans, front and back shown.
Measures approx. 3.25\" x 8\".
\"Pinxy\" is the famous trade name used by George \"Pinxy\" Larsen and his wife, \"Madame\" Pinxy Larsen, who were premier American puppet makers and vaudeville performers. Operating primarily from Chicago during the golden age of American puppetry (spanning from the early 1900s through the 1940s), the duo became legendary for their intricate craftsmanship.
George “Pinxy” Larsen acquired his famous nickname while touring the vaudeville circuit as a magician and ventriloquist with his wife. The duo was known for carving their own ventriloquist dummies, and they attracted so much positive attention that in 1914 they decided to do it full-time.They were among the first performers to appear on early experimental television broadcasts in the 1930s; at the time of a December 1939 profile in Popular Science Pinxy was one of only two professional ventriloquist dummy carvers in America.
