page_title: John Alexander Agnew
hierarchical_section_title: John Alexander Agnew
caption_attribution_description: English: Esssay for the 1878-83 The Large Dragon Issue stamps of China.
context_page_description: John Alexander Agnew was a New Zealand mining engineer who worked with future United States president Herbert Hoover and later became chairman of Consolidated Gold Fields, the first chairman of the firm to be from a mining engineering background. In his spare time he was a noted philatelist whose collection of Chinese stamps and postal history was regarded as one of the finest of his era.
context_section_description: John Alexander Agnew (1872 – 2 August 1939) was a New Zealand mining engineer who worked with future United States president Herbert Hoover and later became chairman of Consolidated Gold Fields, the first chairman of the firm to be from a mining engineering background. In his spare time he was a noted philatelist whose collection of Chinese stamps and postal history was regarded as one of the finest of his era.
caption: An unadopted hand-drawn essay for the 1878–83 Large Dragon stamps of China bought by John Agnew from Sir Robert Hart. Subsequently acquired by Sir Percival David and latterly by Meiso Mizuhara.[1]
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