Catalog
1 Dollar Darvel Bay
| Issuer | The Darvel Bay (Borneo) Tobacco Plantations, Limited |
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| Year | 1880-1890 |
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| Currency | Dollar (1882-1941) |
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| Reverse description | Printed entirely in green, the reverse is dominated by a large central guilloche rosette bearing the denomination "ONE DOLLAR" in white serif lettering, flanked by two smaller oval guilloche medallions on either side, all set within an elaborate lathe-work border. The obverse design shows through as a faint blind impression. A perforation cancellation reading "SPECIMEN / CHARLES SKIPPER & EAST" is punched through the lower portion of the note. |
| Reverse lettering | ONE DOLLAR |
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The Darvel Bay (Borneo) Tobacco Plantations, Limited was one of several British chartered enterprises that attempted to commercialize North Borneo's interior during the 1880s, operating in territory administered by the British North Borneo Chartered Company after its founding in 1881. Plantation scrip of this kind was a practical necessity — specie simply did not circulate reliably in remote Sabah, and the company needed a medium to pay and supply its workforce.
Charles Skipper & East, who also produced notes for South African and colonial issuers in the same period, printed the series in London. Whether significant quantities ever returned to the company for redemption is doubtful given the plantation's short operational life in the region.