Best of the "Not-so- Old Montana license plates: Taking "pre-war" Montana plates as "not so old", there are two during-the-war Montana license plates which catch your eye in a run tacked to the wall: The first is the '42 with the '43 tab. What an ingenious way of saving metal, while working the tab into the graphic design of the license plate. The second remarkable not so old Montana license plate is the '44 fiber, which normally would be common enough as far as fibers go: but there are no state maps on these. What you must love about them as well, is that so many of them bear the legible "Illinois 1943" designation clearly on the reverse. Common legend holds that that Illinois' first foray into fibers resulted in a soybean composite found to be tasty to the livestock, which nibbled them off the cars. Lesser known is the rumor that Illinois palmed off their first batch of tags to Montana -- while they developed a bad tasting recipe for the 1944 Illinois license plates.
Toughest/Most Rare Montana plates: Taking the lead from Illinois again, if we can assume that the perforated-front pairs of plates from 1913 and 1914 (once thought to be prestates), are NOT actually pre states, then those are the rarest. Other than that, the 1915 old Nontana license plate "traditional" first issue is a tough plate indeed.
New & Old Montana License plate slogans:
...and not sure if this really counts as an OFFICIAL old license plates slogan, though its one of the best known, even though it was never even painted! But in any case, we offer you:
These are just humble opinions about various Montana antique license plates! Your views on old Montana plates may differ, and may even be correct(!)
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