Passenger Plates
1908
First year of state-issued plates.
190800000
1908 plates were made of separate metal panels - one for each digit, and one for the right side with the makers seal.
Jeff Francis

John Willard


Donna Otto

Leib Brothers


John Anshant


The last prestate plate seen is #38887 ... so potentially anything higher than that would have been issued to new registrants in 1908.
Plates with lower numbers were reissues of existing prestate numbers.
Some 5-digit plates have the first two digits on the same panel.



Drew Steitz




Seal detail (# NOT GIVEN)

Here is a set of 4 plates with the same number.
The makers seals on one set have the serial number 480 ... the second set has ☆480☆
Maybe the star denotes a second set of plates (remakes) ??
Leib Brothers

This plate has an inverted "8"

Seal # 480

Seal # ☆480☆
Is the "8" inverted here too ?

Below is a 1908 plate with two seals on it.
Does that mean it was transferred to a different car mid-year ? Perhaps we'll never know.
John Anshant


