No revenue stamps were provided by the government specifically for photographers. However, in September 1864, a 50¢ Proprietary stamp was briefly considered to provide a more convenient means of paying: affixing high denomination stamps to monthly returns rather than each photograph sold. A die was produced and a plate prepared, but the order was canceled when the monthly return plan was abandoned. Two impressions of this die design, one black and one blue, from the Morton Dean Joyce Collection are the basis for its listing as Essay 65 (die) in Turner's Essays and Proofs of United States Internal Revenue Stamps (1974). Shown here is the blue essay. It is believed to be unique. ex Morton Dean Joyce