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TPK wrote: ↑Sun Apr 21, 2024 7:27 am Thought I'd show you guys my "DIY" license plate restoration / touch up kit.

Nice idea to touch them up Tom. Show us some before and after of your handy work.

C-WADE7 wrote: ↑Sun Apr 21, 2024 2:51 pm

TPK wrote: ↑Sun Apr 21, 2024 7:27 am Thought I'd show you guys my "DIY" license plate restoration / touch up kit.

Nice idea to touch them up Tom. Show us some before and after of your handy work.

Ok, No Problem. As soon as I do any new touch ups I'll do some before & after pictures. But it's nothing to brag about really. It's usually just small scratches & dings as I usually try to aquire plates that are in pretty good condition to start with. The plates hang in my car port in highths from about 7-12 feet high. So I can do small touch ups that no one notices once I get them hung up in my carport. But sure, I can do some before & after pictures next time.

Someone suggested, I post my watches in this thread.... If you like Omega.... let's see 'em!

Challenge coins.

GSPTOPDOG wrote: ↑Wed May 08, 2024 2:10 am Challenge coins.

Wow! Super cool collection GSPTOPDOG!!!

My latest addition. (In the mail.)

Lamar Jackson from the Baltimore Ravens went to school here.
A must have plate for a plate collecting Ravens fan.

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TPK wrote: ↑Sat May 11, 2024 6:51 pm

GSPTOPDOG wrote: ↑Wed May 08, 2024 2:10 am Challenge coins.

Wow! Super cool collection GSPTOPDOG!!!

Thanks TPK Good to see you are getting some new plates for your collection.

GSPTOPDOG wrote: ↑Sat May 11, 2024 10:09 pm

TPK wrote: ↑Sat May 11, 2024 6:51 pm

GSPTOPDOG wrote: ↑Wed May 08, 2024 2:10 am Challenge coins.

Wow! Super cool collection GSPTOPDOG!!!

Thanks TPK Good to see you are getting some new plates for your collection.

Thanks Buddy!

A Fortis Swiss watch*.

* FORTIS Watches AG (formerly FORTIS Uhren AG), located in Grenchen is a luxury Swiss watches manufacturer that was founded by Walter Vogt in 1912. The brand is particularly known for robust, highly precise, automatic tool watches.

Nice knife and watch! I like the gmt dial and hand n the center as opposed to the outside.

C-WADE7 wrote: ↑Thu May 16, 2024 2:10 pm Nice knife and watch! I like the gmt dial and hand n the center as opposed to the outside.

Thank you C-W-VII I used to travel all over the country and world so I came to appreciate the GMT dial and hand.

Picked up 3 "In God We Trust" plates from one seller. Waiting for the combined shipping end price.
My son wants the Indiana plate to hang up in his room.

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Quite the license plate collection you got going Tom!!

John

Just started collecting vtg fishing graphics....on ads or lure packages.

jmh58 wrote: ↑Sun Jun 02, 2024 8:33 pm Quite the license plate collection you got going Tom!!

John

Thanks John! Over 100 of them now. Just need to get the last 15 or so hung up in my car port.

TripleF wrote: ↑Sun Jun 02, 2024 9:15 pm Just started collecting vtg fishing graphics....on ads or lure packages.

Can't wait for some group pictures of that collection as it grows Scott. That's going to look awesome! Will you display them in a frame some day?

TPK wrote: ↑Mon Jun 03, 2024 3:17 am

TripleF wrote: ↑Sun Jun 02, 2024 9:15 pm Just started collecting vtg fishing graphics....on ads or lure packages.

Can't wait for some group pictures of that collection as it grows Scott. That's going to look awesome! Will you display them in a frame some day?

Thanks bud. Not sure....how we're going to display them. Right now They're on top shelf of desk console.

C-WADE7 wrote: ↑Sun Apr 21, 2024 2:51 pm

TPK wrote: ↑Sun Apr 21, 2024 7:27 am Thought I'd show you guys my "DIY" license plate restoration / touch up kit.

Nice idea to touch them up Tom. Show us some before and after of your handy work.

Ok so, I just try to find a permanent marker as close to the original color as I can find and then cover up the spots or scratches as well as possible. The only orange colored marker I could find in town was a Textile marker which does not work as well as a normal standard permanent marker but I made due.

Here are the "before" & "after" pictures.

Not a huge difference unless your one of those "perfectionists" like me.

In most cases, once I hang them up, no one will ever notice the "Touch Up" work.

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Looks good Tom and made a difference for sure.

Some Bossons chalkware heads made in England.

chickenman62 wrote: ↑Mon Jul 15, 2024 10:48 pm Some Bossons chalkware heads made in England.

Cool!

New to me.

Picked up another "In God We Trust" plate from KY.

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1983 - ALPCA, ( Automobile License Plate Collectors Association ) Maryland convention.

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TPK wrote: ↑Sat Aug 10, 2024 6:01 am 1983 - ALPCA, ( Automobile License Plate Collectors Association ) Maryland convention.

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Cool! A collector's plate for a plate collector!

I grab a lighter when I see one I like. The nam lighter is an engraving of my 8" Howitzer. Top sarge gave them to a couple of us drivers for a mission we did. Nice guy, found out he used the battery fund to buy em. OK I get it! Told the wife I cant take photos. She said"dont worry your good at other things. I said"name a couple things, she said she couldnt think of anything off hand.