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October 16, 2023

License Plate Collection with Real ‘Local Color’
Over the years we’ve been fortunate to have had a number of very nice collections of license plates offered to us…and recently a collection with real ‘local color’ was made available to GAP…the Johnston brothers, Philip and Henry, now living in Thomaston, GA contacted us to review about 50 plates that had hung in a […] read more
July 11, 2023

Hawaii License Plate Wins 2023 ALPCA Plate of the Year!
This is the first time for Hawaii to win this award. The Plate was originally proposed in 2020 to be limited to Electric Vehicles since members of the PVS were also concerned about the environment, but that limitation was quickly dropped as the demand for the plate was great among all motorists, which also generated […] read more
July 6, 2023

2023 Automobile License Plate Collectors’ International Convention (ALPCA)
After an 1,850 mile drive across our beautiful country just before the Fourth of July Weekend, the Plate Princess and I arrived in Denver, Colorado for the 2023 Automobile License Plate Collectors’ International Convention…another 450 or so collectors joined us for an enjoyable four day meet…lots of plates to buy, sell, or trade, and plenty of […] read more
July 3, 2023

EUREKA!…GOLD FROM ALASKA!
Patience is a virtue, but sometimes good luck plays a role as well…at the 2023 ALPCA convention in Denver this week, we were happy to meet up with Eric Tanner, the current Editor of PLATES magazine (yes, we have our own license plate collectors’ magazine!)…in previous issues, Eric had done a few articles mentioning the DC license […] read more
January 10, 2023

Cheers to Jack, The Village Pub & 150 Wisconsin License Plates
With a beautiful morning sunrise as my guide, east-bound to Vero Beach was a pleasant journey, for sure…particularly as a complete collection of 150 Wisconsin license plates awaited my arrival at the home of Jack Lucas, former owner and barkeep of the Village Pump in Solon Springs, Wisconsin…while we can’t attest to the cuisine at […] read more
July 19, 2022

ALPCA License Plate Collectors Convention – Hampton, VA
…we made it!!…what’s another 750 mile joy ride with the Plate Princess to wheel and deal more license plates?!…the annual ALPCA license plate collectors convention this year is in Hampton, VA…so we loaded up about 10,000 license plates in Lakeland Sunday morning and made it here in time for dinner last night!…I keep reminding her […] read more
June 7, 2022

The Dan Smith Taxi Cab License Plates Collection
In early April, as Spring was springing and we were shaking off some of the Covid-crazies, we received an email from Cynthia Kindgren in Rockford, Illinois…she asked if we’d be interested in her recently-deceased brother’s collection of taxi cab license plates…over the years we’ve had several folks describe their available collections to us, including military, […] read more
May 23, 2022

Italy and Malta License Plate
…on our recent plate excursion to Italy and Malta, we not only enjoyed the beautiful Greek and Roman heritage sites, we saw LOTS of plates!…including the 111 and the 888 on May 18th…note the new plate size, the police plate, and even a taxi cab plate on a horse drawn carriage ( we only walked […] read more
March 15, 2022

License Plates To Estoinia
Over the years we’ve been fortunate to ‘electronically’ meet some very nice plate collectors around the world…one such gentleman is Margus K., President of the Official Corvette Club of Estonia!…not only does Margus love Corvettes, he is an avid plate enthusiast as well…just witness his garage wall in Estonia!…in these troubling times Margus can still […] read more
March 7, 2022

ALPCA Tennessee Show
Dolly Parton didn’t make it, but about 100 other serious plate collectors did…Ray Mauer from Kentucky and Cyndi McCabe (ALPCA President) had a chance to visit, while others simply wanted to troll the goods!…a well-run event on a beautiful weekend, with incredibly delicious homemade food provided by the local women’s auxiliary raised high school scholarship […] read more
November 15, 2021

ALPCA Meet: Porcelain License Plate and Specialty Plate Haul
Leaving on a balmy day in Florida, traveling to Leominster, MA for the Colonial Region’s ALPCA meet was a leap of faith, weather-wise…but we had three Cambridge-based stockholders who would not be denied!…even with a little bit of winter sleet to cool things down…the meet was a record-maker, complete with a museum collection sale, a […] read more
October 13, 2021

Hersey’s 100 License Plate Haul
This past week the Plate Princess and I traveled to Hershey, Pennsylvania to stroll through some of the 5,500 acres of the Hershey Fairgrounds property to enjoy the Classic Car Show and the Giant Automobile Parts Flea Market…she lasted about four hours worth of license plate scrounging, which is about what it took for us […] read more