From leather license plates with porcelain numbers to plates shaped like a potato, before standardization, license plates ...

UNION, Ill. – A rare porcelain license plate, designed in the early days of automobiles in St. Louis, recently sold for $8,500 at an Illinois auction. The license plate dates back to 1906 and displays ...

Dear Judy Campbell: Here are photographs of two gilt-edged porcelain plates that measure about 10 inches diameter that I have owned for a number of years. Both carry five-digit numbers under beehive ...

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A rare 100-year-old porcelain New York state license plate will be going on public display soon at the Saratoga County Clerk’s Office. The plate shows slight chipping — and that was the basic problem ...

Editor's note: This story first ran in Eliot Kleinberg's Florida Time column in July 2019. Between 1938 and 1975, Florida assigned each of its 67 counties a number that was based on its population ...