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

Joe Pugliese

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


