Is anyone into collecting old license plates?

[Guitar Guy]

Is anyone into collecting old license plates? … or a member of the ALPCA (Automobile License Plate Collectors Association)?

I just joined the ALPCA, but my interest in plates started around 20 yrs ago when I first built my garage. I answered an ad in the local paper for a farmer’s sale, and bought a huge box of plates from him. I thought they’d look good hanging on the garage walls, along with some old wooden handled tools. In the box, there ended up being plates from 35 of the US states, along with many other old plates. I hung them at the top of the garage wall, side by side, and they went about 3/4 of the way around the garage. After that, I didn’t make much effort to acquire more for a while.

So last fall, I decided to get busy and get the rest of the US states and go the rest of the way around the garage. After some searching and trading, I finally got all of the states, and even some from Germany, Ireland, and Canada. It took 95 to go all the way around the top border of the garage walls.

I’m still trying to upgrade some of my state plates with better or older examples, and maybe get some old porcelain ones. If anyone else here is into old plates, let me know, and maybe we can start posting some pics of interesting old plates, or trading. I’ve seen some decent ornamental plates too, with IH or Cub Cadet on them.

Here are a few pics. I don’t have anything extremely rare or expensive, but they’re interesting in their own way. I like some of the older ones with state slogans.

Josh

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