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Propworx · Sale 1010 · Lot 3293

Personal Emergency Transponder

Personal Emergency Transponder

Production made metal device with translucent lens, black push button, and alligator clip on back. Light functionality unverified. Measures approx. 1in × 2.75in × 0.75in.

Provenance

Taken by Propworx staff directly from The Bridge Studios, where MGM’s Stargate series were produced.

Transponder used by actor David Hewlett in the Stargate Atlantis Season Two finale, “Allies”. McKay wrote a program onto this device to beam him off a Wraith hive ship in the event the Wraith double-crossed Atlantis. But in his hour of need, McKay’s program did not work.

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