A word of advice on these flat old license tags: Many antique license plate collectors swear by WD40 spray as a preservative, surface waxer and/or color enhancer for the old plates in their collection. WD40 is a fine product for most old license plates, but don't EVER spray them on a Nevada flat. (Unless you take a picture of it first, because, being a flat tag without embossing, you might not remember which numbers to paint back on it!)
Other nice old tags freom Nevada? Honorable mention goes to the ornate, Old West-style scallop edging on the brightly colored '23 through 1927 tags. Best of the "Not-so- Old Nevada license plates: The '53 gold on green stands alone in a sea of blue and silver. A true original eyecatcher among Nevada's old and antique license plates.
They say, "What Goes On In Vegas, Stays in Vegas", and if so, we wonder how many 1962 validation stickers properly went on and stuck to the 1961 Nevada license plate base tags. A relatively tiny sticker, perhaps the smallest among US license plate passenger issues, (and probably the only one fully shaped like the state), was somehow required to be placed in a state-shaped dimple in the upper right of the license plate. Fine, if you're a nice square state like Wyoming, but this must have been tricky with Nevada's tapering southern point. Motorists had a second change to master this technique when adding the 1963 stickers to the 1961 Nevada license plates, after which the practice was discontinued.
The 1964 Nevada License plate had a unique top piece of flat metal which celebrated the Nevada centennial, and which was screwed or fasted onto the top of the existing license plate. This "Centennial Strip" looked more like a license plate attachment than a genuine part of an official license plate. Additionally weird was that you had to place the sticker right on the attachment, thereby "validating" something that didn't even look a license plate! Yes, the strip had the plate number etched onto it, but why was a 1964 sticker stuck onto it, right below the 1964 of the same size and typeface on the strip? This is the sort of thing that makes collecting old license plates so much fun.
Interesting Nevada license plates also include state-sanctioned knockoffs of the circa 1982 blue base debossed tags, which STILL are valid if they happen to be "real" survivors of that era. Also still valid are 1969 dated blue base Nevada license plates, though oddly, other "officially retired" Nevada statewide license plate issues are NOT valid. A final intriguing point on old and not so old Nevada license plates: Only two Nevada license tags displayed the jurisdiction as "Nev" rather than "Nevada": The first issue 1916, and the 1971 debossed blue base.
Toughest/Most Rare Nevada plates: As interesting as all of the above information is, determining rare Nevada license plates, (or rather THE most rare Nevada license plate) is simple: alls you have to remember is 1917.
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