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Auction: 12004 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals & Militaria
Lot: 7

The Historically Important C.B.E. and Boer War Pair to Mr. C.S. Franklin, Wireless Telegraph Department, Who, As Marconi´s Right Hand Man, Was a Giant in the Development of Wireless Transmission, and Who Developed and Designed the Transmitters Used For Both The First Ever Radio Broadcast in 1922 and First Ever Television Broadcast in 1936 of the British Broadcasting Corporation
a) The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, 2nd type, Civil Division, Commander´s (C.B.E.) neck Badge, silver-gilt and enamel, with full neck riband, in Garrard, London, case of issue
b) Queen´s South Africa 1899-1902, one clasp, Cape Colony (Mr. C.S. Franklin. Wireless. Tel: Dpt), toned, extremely fine, estremely scarce, with various photographs and copied research (2)

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£1,400