Every day Sophie Dupre presents two items from her large stock of signed photographs, autograph letters, autographs for sale, royal memoralbilia and antiquarian manuscripts.
The photographs are presented with the catalogue descriptions.
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February 15
On this day in 1922 - Marconi began regular broadcasting transmissions from Essex and in 1874 Ernest H Shackleton, the Antarctic explorer was born.
MARCONI (Guglielmo, 1874-1937, Wireless Pioneer)
Fine Typed Letter Signed, to Miss Collier, thanking her for her “kind letter of sympathy for the loss of my dear Brother. His sudden death was a tremensous [sic] shock to us all and we have felt it all the more as we could not be near him during His last hours ...” I side A4, Reale Academia D’Italia headed paper, Rome, 30th April 1936 1908, recipent’s name and address obliterated at an early date in pen
SHACKLETON AT THE SOUTH POLE
SHACKLETON (Sir Ernest Henry, 1874-1922, British Antarctic Explorer)
Superb Postcard photograph signed, with the printed caption “Lieutenant Shackleton, Arctic Explorer 1908 nearest the South Pole”, showing him in his arctic uniform with fun gloves, standing in the snow with another of the team struggling with a sledge behind him, 5½” x 3½”, no place, no date, but South Pole, 1908, slightly worn
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