1909 Single Dray License Plate

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Found a 1909 Single Dray License Plate.

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That is pretty cool, hard to believe you needed a license plate on a horse drawn wagon! Great early date, wonder what the first year of issue was?
 

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was that only for commercial vehicals? There must of still been quite a few horses on the roads there in 1909?
 

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They are still required on horse/wagons in Romania.. I doubt they have to go through inspection, though! [;)]

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Killer plate cryptic, I bet that one is worth some good $$. Never heard of these before but I sure do like them now that I know they exist!

Is it copper or brass? Good thing it was nonferrous otherwise it would just be another pile of rust dust. If I dug one it would be my favorite find even if I got bottles worth the same amount or more. Not too many of those around, certainly.
 

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Killer plate cryptic, I bet that one is worth some good $$. Never heard of these before but I sure do like them now that I know they exist!

Is it copper or brass? Good thing it was nonferrous otherwise it would just be another pile of rust dust. If I dug one it would be my favorite find even if I got bottles worth the same amount or more. Not too many of those around, certainly.

I can not find anything close to it on the internet. I'm not sure what it is made of. The front is mostly just black and there are some light green/bluish parts of oxidation on the back. It is very flexible. Some of the places where you can see through the oxidation are reddish orange in colour. Hard to tell if it may be copper or brass. Most of the items dug in this area are in very good shape! I recently dug lawn clippings or hay/straw from this 1920's dump that was still in perfect condition..
 

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From looking at the pic and your description, I am wondering if it's made of tin ?
 

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I read that the trash collectors and privy cleaners had to be liscensed by the towns they worked for . They had horse drawn carts.
 

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