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Auction: 11033 - Autumn Collector's Series Sale
Lot: 1873

Rhodesia 1901 (Aug.) "The North Chartered Exploration Co. Ltd." printed envelope from (Fort) Hargreaves to London, bearing 1896-97 Die 4d. ultramarine and mauve cancelled by a fair strike of the exceptionally rare "Hargreaves/N.E. Rhodesia/Aug.-26 (?)-01" three-line datestamp (similar in style to Proud Type D1 for Petauke) and showing, on reverse, Fort Jameson (2.9), Chinde (7.1) and arrival (15.11) c.d.s. Also 1901 (8 and 15 Nov.) envelopes ex the same correspondence from London to E.G. Parker of the North Chartered Exploration Co. "Fort Young Mpeseni Country British Central Africa", each franked at 2 1/2d. and showing, on reverse, Chinde (18.12 and 30.12, both with year date inverted) and Fort Jameson (20.1 and 30.1) c.d.s. All three with faults in places through opening though a remarkable new find of the Hargreaves postal marking which is believed to be the first of the very few known examples used as a cancellation, the others being used as arrival markings in the Fletcher Jones correspondence. Photo Estimate £ 800-1,000 Note: It was not until the Fletcher Jones correspondence was discovered and offered by Spink in 2003 that any Hargreaves postal marking was recorded. In Alan Drysdall´s outstanding article on the subject, published by the Rhodesian Study Circle as their Memoir 5, he notes that (Fort) Hargreaves is shown in the BSA Co´s reports to shareholders for the years 1898-1900 and 1900-02 as close to the east bank of the "Loangwa" River, west-southwest of Fort Jameson. Dann records that the first letter he received after he begun the building of his boma at Mkushi River was brought by a runner sent by Thorneycroft, the North Chartland agent at Fort Hargreaves

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