Wireless Wares
A selection of the items on display in the Wireless Wares exhibition
A small exhibition of Marconi memorabilia will be on show from 3 – 21 April. All the items on display will be auctioned in the Museum at 3pm on Saturday 21 April, ‘Marconi Day’. Find out more about the objects, and see images, using the links below. As well as the auction, there will be talks, activities and drama to mark Marconi Day in the centenary year of the sinking of the Titanic. View the programme of events…
Wireless Wares auction lots:
Lot 1: Cigarette Card, Guglielmo Marconi, 1901
Lot 2: Tea Card, Guglielmo Marconi, 1975
Lot 3: Three Marconi Italian Postage Stamps, 1938
Lot 4: Illustrated Article from The Strand Magazine, 1897
Lot 5: Phone Card, Guglielmo Marconi, late 20th century
Lot 6: Illustrated Article from The Sketch, March 1901
Lot 7: A Page from The Graphic, 11 January 1902, Illustrating Marconi’s First Trans-Atlantic Signal
Lot 9: Multi-View Postcard of Chelmsford, c.1910
Lot 10: BT ‘Titanic’ Phone Card, c.1995
Lot 11: Marconi Galvanometer, mid-20th-Century
Lot 12: Marconi Advertisement from Punch, April 1926
Lot 13: H.E. Handcock, Wireless at Sea: the First Fifty Years (Chelmsford, 1950)
Lot 14: Vintage Photographic Print of Marconi Broadcasting on NBC during his last visit to the USA
There will be no reserve price on any of these items.
