HISTORY - BADEN-POWELL Robert (1857 - 1941) - Autograph letter signed
Lot 387 · The Langer Collection · 29 April 2024
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In 1908, he founded the Boy Scouts, soon to become an international organisation, and in 1910, with the help of his sister Agnes, the Girl Guides. He fought in the Boer War in South Africa from 1899 to 1902.
Autograph letter signed: "Nature gave us one tongue but two ears. So that we may hear twice as much as we speak."; Scout Wood Badge to Ernest Noir dated 13.12.1934.