Andrew Dougherty Proprietary Revenue Stamp Used Improperly As Documentary In 1869

This is a wonderful item, IMO. Another example of how searching outside of the normal stamps category on eBay can pay dividends.

It's Scott # RU4a used improperly as a documentary on an 1869 one-day promissory note, tied by manuscript cancel in the same hand that wrote the note. The manuscript cancel is "TK AP 6 1869", the unusual month abbreviation matching that used at upper right.

5 cents was the correct tax rate for this transaction.

Mann's Choice is a tiny borough in western Pennsylvania, population 363 in 1890 (its high point given on Wikipedia, also the earliest year listed), population 311 in 2021.

Great item! Thanks for posting.

Since these stamps were typically not cancelled and since a small community in western Pennsylvania is an unlikely place for someone to have the Andrew Dougherty private die stamp (unless they had purchased a deck of Dougherty playing cards!), does this illustrate that someone got the stamp off a deck of playing cards and "reused" the stamp on a local promissory note?