RED OVERPRINT: 'D.B.' on Rouletted 1d yellow-green, rouletting on all sides, small separation faults at upper-left & upper-right, two strikes of the GPO cds. Rated RR. The fine 'Tamiami' example sold for $551. [Date range 1.6.1869 to 9.7.1869 only. This, and the fact it is the best example obtained by Don Pearce, suggests this stamp is significantly underrated]
RED OVERPRINT: 'D.B.' on Rouletted 2d bright vermilion, rouletting largely clear of the design on all sides, exceptional Diamond-Numeral '18' cancel of Brighton. Magnificent! Rated RR: unrecorded unused. [Date range 6.6.1868 to 9.10.1868]
Brighton's Grace Darling Hotel, named after the famed English heroine who rescued passengers from a sinking ship in 1838, was opened in 1849. However, by 1867, the hotel was under the control of the Destitute Board who ran an industrial school for children there.
RED OVERPRINT: 'D.B.' on Perf 11½-12½ 4d deep dull purple from the right of the sheet with marginal vertical watermark lines at right, very fine GPO cds of 1868. Superb. Rated RRRR. The two 'Besancon' mint examples - also rated RRRR - sold for SFr1575 (trimmed at right) & SFr1210 (2019; trimmed two sides). [Date range 17.12.1868 to 26.2.1869 only]
RED OVERPRINT: 'D.B.' on Rouletted 6d dull blue, rouletting clear of the design on three sides & cut from the sheet clear of the design at base, large-part o.g. Rated RRR. More attractive than the 'Besancon' example that sold for SFr1150.
Sale No: 247
Lot No: 253
Symbol: *
Cat No: Collection
RED OVERPRINT: 'D.B.' on Rouletted 6d dull blue with Double Overprint, rouletting clear of the design at the sides & otherwise cut from the sheet to preserve the design, large-part o.g. The error is unlisted by Ron Butler & this is the only one other recorded example so it should be rated RRRRR. [Baron Ferrary had an almost identical stamp, that now reposes in a local collection]
RED OVERPRINT: 'D.B.' on Rouletted 6d dull blue, remarkably with rouletting clear of the design on all sides, very fine GPO cds of AP9/69 does not tie the stamp to the small piece from a printed lettersheet to which it clearly belongs. Rated RRRRR. [The only dated example recorded by Don Pearce]
RED OVERPRINT: 'D.B.' on Rouletted 1/- red-brown on brownish tinted paper marginal horizontal pair from the right of the sheet, rouletting on all sides, just tied by GPO cds of AU9/68 to the small piece from a printed lettersheet. Rated RRRR+. An extremely rare & desirable multiple. The 'Besancon' mint example sold for SFr1815. [Date range 9.8.1868 to 11.12.1869]
BLUE OVERPRINT: 'D.B.' on De La Rue Crown/SA Wmk Rouletted 2d red-orange, rouletting on all sides, GPO cds of DE15/68. Rated RR. Superb. Superior to the 'Besancon' example with the watermark reversed - "minor creasing" - that sold for SFr605. [Date range 15.10.1868 to 3.9.1869]
BLUE OVERPRINT: 'D.B.' on De La Rue Star Wmk Rouletted 2d red-orange marginal example from the left of the sheet with vertical marginal watermark lines at left, rouletting on all sides, tiny nick at the base, GPO cds of MY26/69. Rated RRRR: unrecorded unused. [Date range 27.2.1869 to 11.4.1871]
BLUE OVERPRINT: 'D.B.' on De La Rue Crown/SA Wmk Rouletted 2d red-orange with 'D.B.' Offset on the Reverse, rouletting on three sides & cut from the sheet clear of the design at left, very fine GPO cds of MR19/69. Superb. Rated RR+. [The presence of 'D.B.' on the reverse indicates that the overprinting was done before the sheets were gummed]
BLUE OVERPRINT: 'D.B.' on Perf 11½-12½ 4d deep dull purple, unusually well centred, untidy GPO cds of SP18/69. Superb. Unlisted by Ron Butler & the only recorded example so it should be rated RRRRRR.
BLUE OVERPRINT: 'D.B.' on Rouletted 6d dull blue, rouletting on three sides & cut from the sheet largely clear of the design at right - the protrusion at the top is part of the adjoining stamp - tied to small piece from a printed lettersheet by very fine GPO cds of 1870. Rated RRRR. Ex Colonel Harry Napier (I). The fine mint 'Besancon' example - unrecorded unused - sold for SFr3630. [Date range 6.10.1870 to 25.10.1870]
BLACK OVERPRINT: 'D.B.' on Perf 11½-12½ 1d yellow-green, GPO cds of JY17/74. Superb. Rated RRR. Far superior to the 'Besancon' example that sold for SFr605. [Apparently a very late addition to the denominations for this user: date range 7.11.1873 to 31.10.1874 only, and may have been used only for posting the Government Gazette]
BLACK OVERPRINT: 'D.B.' on De La Rue Crown/SA Wmk Rouletted 2d red-orange with the Watermark Reversed, rouletting on three sides & cut from the sheet at left, very fine GPO cds of OC1-/69. Rated R. [Date range -.10.1869 to 28.7.1870]
BLACK OVERPRINT: 'D.B.' on De La Rue Crown/SA Wmk Perf 10 2d red-orange with the Watermark Reversed, a couple of nibbled perfs at the base otherwise superb, very fine GPO cds of OC4/71. Rated R. [Date range 1.7.1871 to 8.11.1873]
BLACK OVERPRINT: 'D.B.' on De La Rue Crown/SA Wmk Perf 10 2d red-orange with Defective (very small) Stop after 'D.', very fine GPO cds of JA--/73. Rated R+.
BLACK OVERPRINT: 'D.B.' on De La Rue Crown/SA Wmk Perf 10 2d dull orange, tied by GPO cds of JY--/71 to plain cover endorsed "Inmates letter" & addressed to ".../care of Mr Scott/...the Yatla [sic]/Hard Labour Prison/Dry Creek", two opening tears across the flap, pinholes & filled punch-hole at L/L from where affixed to an official file. The stamp is rated R. The only 'D.B.' cover in Anthony Presgrave's Census. An oustanding postal history usage from an asylum inmate to a prisoner sentenced to hard labour.
Edward Bate Scott arrived at Adelaide in 1839. He accompanied Edward John Eyre on two expeditions, in 1839 and 1840. In 1867, Scott was appointed Acting Protector of Aborigines. Between 1869 & 1892, he was Superintendent of the Dry Creek Labour Prison, at Yatala, where he would have used 'C.D.' overprints.
BLACK OVERPRINT: 'D.B.' on De La Rue Crown/SA Wmk Perf 11½ 2d dull orange, marginal example from the left of the right-hand pane. the Vertical Perforations Grossly Misplaced through the Design and with a second strike at right to correct the error, straight-edge clear of the design at the top, GPO cds of MR4/71. Rated RR+. A major perforating error, of which only one other example - of 15.11.1871 - has been recorded.
BLACK OVERPRINT: 'D.B.' on De La Rue Crown/SA Wmk Perf 10 4d deep dull purple marginal example from the left of the sheet with marginal vertical watermark lines, a couple of toned perf-tips, GPO cds of JU10/72. Rated RRRR. [Date range 23.8.1870 to 10.6.1872]
BLACK OVERPRINT: 'D.B.' on De La Rue Crown/SA Wmk Perf 11½-12½ 4d deep dull purple from the left of the sheet with marginal vertical watermark lines, GPO cds of SP28/70. Rated RRRR: unrecorded unused. [Date range 19.1.1871 to 10.6.1872]
BLACK OVERPRINT: 'D.B.' on Regular Compound Perf 11½-12½x10 6d Prussian blue, a remarkable unusually wide 'square' stamp, postmark-ink smudge at upper-right, GPO cds with indistinct date. Rated RRR: unrecorded unused. [The only date of usage recorded by Don Pearce is 3.1.7-
