Was "X" Used As "&" In This Cancel? (Rja Series)

I believe that the cancels shown below were applied by Lehn & Fink, Incorporated.

This firm made d-CON rodent control products, Hinds Honey & Almond Cream skin lotion, Lysol disinfectant, Pebeco toothpaste, Resolve, and many more.

Their manufacturing plant was located in Bloomfield, New Jersey.

The only issue is that they apparently used a lower case "x" instead of an ampersand character (&).

The lower case "x" seems to indicate a "&" instead of an actual initial of a word, to me at least.

I can find no company that manufactured a product containing narcotics with an "x" in their name.

Maybe whoever used the cancel intended it to be interpreted as a plus character (+)? Maybe that's how they wrote "&" where they came from?

Has anyone seen another example of this type of character substitution?

Jim