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Ya I hate asking things like this but my mom has a number of antique license plates hanging in a shed and some one want to buy them from her. Say a 1924 and 1927 and a 1941 OK plate and a 1976 MO plate most still have a lot of the paint on them other then the 1941. Any of you have an idea what they might be worth??
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I bought a 1948 plate for my Hudson from a dealer for $65. It was a decent original, not restored. So I suppose if someone would give half that, it would be about right.

I'm assuming, of course, that Missouri has a "Year of Manufacture" license plate option for vintage vehicles. Here, if you get a year of manufacture plate for your old car, you can get a permanent registration for 25 bucks, and you don't have to renew again, ever. Best deal around. If you don't have such a deal, would make the plates worth less. A LOT less!
 
At 'Gold Rush', Orinoco, MN flea market this past August plates were going for $20-$95 depending on age and condition. Guess it depends alot on what someone is willing to pay. Billy
 
I think they are worth more if you have matching pairs of the plates for front and rear of the car. That way, under certain circumstances, depending upon state regulations they can be reused on an old car.
 
Must be worth something for sure. There was a guy selling plates at a flea market south of Florence Ky this past summer. He had a 1944 Ky plate with a pot metal holder around it with a Ky dealer name on it and that was all I wanted. I didn't give a rats rear end about the plate. I got the whole thing for $15,but all he could do was talk about the value of the plate,not about the holder.
 
I got some 1966s still in the brown wrapper some ware,,,Should go look for them i gess
Was wondering a wile back if they were worth much
 
The right ones can bring a pretty penny- I paid $150 for a nice condition matched '32 CA pair for my Deuce dump truck, not a big surprise that '32 plates are spendy, and a nice '47 CA motorcycle plate for one of my '47 Indians, also a tough one to find as it was used for several more years with add-on metal tags, paid $300 for that one, and took 6 months to find one
 
I would think that the 20's OK plates are fairly rare, not a lot of cars there , compared to the states back east.

I recently sold a set of 1950 SC tags, still in the wrapper for 75 dollars. One was perfect, one had a tiny spot of rust on the rim.
 
The OK plates from the 20's gotta be rare! Probably worth more to a plate collector than someone with an old car as people interested in that vintage car are dwindling.

The 76 tag probably isn't worth much. Seems everyone saved their Bi-Centennial tags.

Guys with old cars look for certain numbers on the tags like if they have a 1966 car they want 66 on the tag. Or they look for their birth year or date.

I bought and parted out a collection of plates. There were consecutive numbers from the same year, and those same numbers for consecutive years. One guy bought tags from 3 years with the same numbers, and bought the next consecutive numbered tags from those years as he had multiple cars from the same year. His buddy bought the same number tags from the next 2 years. They thought it would be cool to have their cars lined up at shows with the same/consecutive numbers on the tags. Had another guy buy a set of tags for an old car, plus the same number tags for cars he hoped to add to his collection.

I agree that checking COMPLETED auctions (actual selling prices) on ebay can be a good way to determine the value.
 
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