For Collectors

How We Store and Protect Our License Plate Collection

Collectors have developed many systems for organizing, storing and protecting their license plate collections. There are no right or...

Time Crunch Forces Hand Silk-screened License Plates

The first 600 numbers of the license plate sets created to celebrate the Chicago Bulls Championship win in 1993 were hand silk-screened,...

Honeybee License Plate

Honeybee License Plates

Celebrating the Chicago Bulls NBA Basketball Team

These are genuine license plates issued when the Chicago Bulls basketball team won the NBA championship 3 years in a row. This was the...

WWII Trench Art Inherited From Father

Trench Art is art or craft work created by service members while serving in a war zone. Indeed, it is work executed by the artist while...

It won’t hurt our feelings if you take off our label

Don’t you hate it when you can’t get a price or name sticker off of the item that you just purchased, like a vintage license plate or...

Color History of Illinois Vintage License Plates

Do you ever wonder why the Illinois 1964 license plate is purple? Or, why the 1975 plate is yellow? Illinois has some of the brightest...

Don’t worry - Here’s how we pack your plate for the mail

When you purchase online, do you worry about your vintage license plates surviving their trip through the mail? We don’t blame you. You...

Illinois Special Event License Plates — an Introduction to Collecting

Special Event license plates are actual license plates issued by a state or country in connection with an event celebration such as a...