The circa 1904 aluminum plate, numbered “1,″ will be in a live auction at Union’s Donley Auction Services on Sunday. It’s already fetched a top bid of $3,750 online.
An antique license plate issued by Chicago in 1904 will be auctioned off on Sunday.
The aluminum plate, numbered “1,″ will be in a live auction at Union’s Donley Auction Services on Sunday. It’s already fetched a top bid of $3,750The artifact is so old that it was issued three years before the state of Illinois took over license plate administration, said Mike Donley, the auction house’s consignment specialist. The artifact is stamped “City of Chicago” and “1904.”Advertisement
When the license plate was in use, drivers had to carry their own supplies, he added. There were no gas stations, and drivers hauled multiple wheels because tires regularly blew out. There were barely suburbs around Chicago then, Donley said. “They’re only about five known to even exist,” he said. “And this one is number one. It doesn’t get any rarer than that.”
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