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Auction: 10USA - NYC Currency and Stock & Bond Auction
Lot: 1052

Marconi Wireless Telegraph of America (NJ) 1913. #049163. 5 Shs. Blue. Justice flanked by huge globes and transmission line towers. Issued to and signed on reverse by Guglielmo Marconi. Embossed red 3 Three Pence stamp. ABN. one repaired corner, eleven POC VF+. Guglielmo Marconi (1874-1937) was an Italian electrical engineer and inventor of wireless telegraphy. His first successful experiments in wireless telegraphy were made in Bologna in 1895. By 1889 he had erected a wireless station at La Spezia, and formed the Marconi Wireless telegraph Company in London. By 1898 he could send messages from England to France and in 1901 he successfully transmitted across the Atlantic. The marconi Telegraph Company palyed a major role in the development of radio, television and electronics. In 1909 Marconi won the Nobel Prize for Physics. Certficates signed by Marconi are excessively rare. A simialr example realized $11,000 in sale 205. Estimate US$ 3,000-5,000

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