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Lot 1: Cigarette Card, Guglielmo Marconi, 1901

Cigarette Card, Guglielmo Marconi, 1901 [1]
A tobacco card issued by Ogdens in the UK in 1901, from the set entitled ‘Ogdens Guinea Golds (1-200)’.

Marconi was only about 26 years old; he must have been gratified to be described as ‘The Inventor of Wireless Telegraphy’.