Here's a little story of never know what to expect with things. I saw a CL "curb alert" about a month or so ago in my bedroom town and stopped by after work. Not much for scrap there but a small pile of older license plates and some sort of home-made giant "dust pan" with a steel conduit handle (the thing wouldn't fit into the car so came back the next day with a wrench and took it apart and then it fit). Anyway, the first stop I took the license plates. If nothing else 4 lbs. of light steel.



I tbhought I'd run the license plates by ebay first before they hit the tin pile. There were 9 total; 6 from SD (2 different styles) and 3 from AZ. Late 1990s through early 200os. There seemed to be some market for license plates so threw them up on ebay last week starting at $4.95 (one of my default prices for small stuff). Knew there might be interested when a border hugging Canuk (if this is insulting to those up further north, its not meant to be...) asked what they'd cost going to a friend of his in the states. Picked up 5 watchers before this past Sunday when they closed. That morning someone made the first bid. Cool. Better than 20 cents of steel. About 2 hours before the close it had risen to $17+. Right on!! An hour before the close it had gone to $34+. Fantastic!! And there it closed. Not bad for a quick freebie stop

Here's a pix of the plates. P.S. I wonder if SD plates with maybe a million vehicles tops being licensed are more difficult to find than say OH with probably 20 million plated vehicles for people building collections??