Minnesota License Plate

[Goose-0]

I was helping a daughter clean out her garage today. I looked in the back of empty built-in shelves and saw a corner of a verticle license plate between the shelf and the back wall and I retrieved it. It is heavy steel, black numeral on a silver background, and dated 1941....a neat find due to it being 71 yrs old.

 

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[dfxdude]

Hey Goose, I found a SD plate(1949) a couple of years back detecting an old farmsite.

Also found this ladies Elgin watch in SD the same day.

 

[Goose-0]

Your license plate is nice....it's quite clear.....not rusty. The Elgin watch is very nice. Normally they are wind up watches with 17 jewels. By looking at the serial number, you can research when it was made, It might have some value to it.

 

[dfxdude]

Goose: The watch was a ladies Elgin watch and was part of a collection of watches they made called the "diamond" collection. This watch had a diamond chip at 12 oclock and the retail value was about $60 as I recall. Elgin had other similar watches that had diamond chips at 3,6,9 and 12 oclock and they were a little more pricey. Got this one on a beach at Lake Poinsett in South Dakota west of Estelline. It was in fine, dry sand and only a couple of inches down. Had to get permission from DNR office near the lake. They have permission letters in their files. I was with a guy from North Carolina who camped out there yearly as his wife was from the area. Met him on the DFX site. I got the license plate from his wife's home farm where all the buildings were gone. The license plate is aluminum and must have been one of the earliest aluminum plates made.

 

[Goose-0]

Very good research on the watch dfx-d. Many snows ago, I used to live 30 miles east of Elgin (Chicago area) and on some Sundays, my folks would drive us to Elgin for Black Walnut ice-cream. And of course, my family 'escaped' Illinois (The Land of Imprisoned Governors) some 30+ decades ago, and am glad we did.

 

[reddirtwillie]

Me too goose

 

[Gunrunner61]

I got kinfolk imprisioned in that place, I've been on numerous rescue
missions since the early 70's trying to get them out, No luck yet!...........HH