Last week Dave Lewis wrote about a previously unknown Manistee, Michigan Labor Exchange scrip note. -Editor

"That is a very interesting piece of Labor Exchange scrip. I don't know when the scrip forms that are usually seen were discontinued but individual branches issuing notes with their own designs is not unprecedented. The Cincinnati branch #220 issued a whole series of scrip sometime in the early 1900s.

"That Michigan piece is something I have never seen or heard of before, so it might be a discovery piece as far as I know. 1900 would have been around the time the labor exchange movement started to wane, so the familiar forms may have stopped being made or at least made available to the branches to use by that point. I seem to recall that most of these labor exchanges were defunct by 1905 or not long thereafter. It's a neat item in any event and certainly not one that's often seen."

Thanks, everyone. Eric provided the link to the Heritage 2014 September 3 - 8 Long Beach Expo Currency Signature Auction, Lot #18288. All nice, historically important notes. -Editor