Plates News
ALPCA Rocky Mountain 44th annual license plate meet
The ALPCA Rocky Mountain 44th annual license plate meet will be held on September 17-18, 2021 at the Al Lesser Building at the Riverdal Regional Park and Fairgrounds, 9755 Henderson Road, Brighton, Colorado. Hours are 8-4 PM on Friday and 8-3 PM on Saturday. Donation...
Amateur Repaints
Through the years, Tom has obtained many “amateur repaints” as he calls them. These repaints are usually older plates, often with a good base on which collectors have done a fast paint job, sometimes with an entirely wrong paint color. He intends to auction some of...
1933 Texas License Plate and 1972 Oregon License Plate Pair
Boyd weekly popularity contest winner for this week with 19 Watchers is the 1933 Texas License Plate ( https://www.ebay.com/itm/384326915855 ). The 1972 Oregon License Plate Pair ( https://www.ebay.com/itm/384326920718 ) has 13 Watchers probably because Oregon is a...
1973 Washington License Plate
The 1973 Washington License Plate (https://www.ebay.com/itm/363495201082) has 16 Watchers and heads our weekly ebay auction Popularity contest with 16 Watchers. Tom described it as being in fair to about good condition and it is a possible YOM candidate.....one needs...
Convention
We just got back from the 66th international ALPCA (Automobile License Plate Collectors Association) convention in Covington, West Virginia. Of course, there were only a few international collectors there this year......mainly from Canada, I think. It was terrific to...
ALPCA 2021
The 66th Annual International Automobile License Plate Collectors Association (ALPCA) Convention will take place August 4th-7th in Covington, Kentucky. This is an ALPCA member-only event.
1929 Alabama and 1948 New Mexico License plates
This week the 1929 Alabama and 1948 New Mexico License plates are the current winners of oue Boyd weekly ebay auction popularity contest. Both are tough plates to find in reasonable condition from southern states. The 1948 New Mexico plate...
1940 Texas and 1944 New Mexico license plates
We received a question on the 1969 Maine Dealer license plate this week (https://www.ebay.com/itm/384265811078) Question: "I've never seen this license plate base. Do you have information on what the SV designation meant? Snowmobile dealer?" According to Tom: "The...
Analytics
I thought that I'd mention that the analytics of the weekly Boyd auction popularity contest does not always correlate with the highest priced plate sold each week. It does frequently match which license plates are popular among license plate collectors. Popular this...
“Amateur repaints”
Through the years, Tom has obtained many "amateur repaints" as he calls them. These repaints are usually older plates, often with a good base on which collectors have done a fast paint job, sometimes with an entirely wrong paint color. He intends to auction some of...