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Only those well-versed in Maine license plate dies will notice the oddity with these plates - the dies are from the Polyvend company, who manufactured a small number of plates (test batch?) during the mid-1970s. Thanks to Jim Moini for trading the LT Trailer plate to me.

Here's one that missed the paint machine. Gives you a better idea of just how ugly that [boiled] lobster really was. Too bad they didn't just make it the same red as the text.

This is what is commonly referred to as an "invert."

This one is interesting because the "Vacationland" at the bottom is embossed and not screened in red like the previous two examples. These plates were only issued from 1 ES to 1145 ES or so, and were issued during the last two weeks of June, 1999 only. That makes this dead crustacean one of the scarcest of all.

A chickadee invert that somehow flew the coop.

This one is self-explanatory. When New Brunswick was powering through the ABC-123 format, the entire 'ASS' series was produced. Someone fell asleep, went out for coffee, who knows. These plates are kind of a badge of honor in the plate-collecting community - any collector worth his/her salt should own one.

This was quite an interesting find. A replacement plate costs roughly $5, but someone took it upon themselves to surgically repair this damaged Equipment plate. I imagine this project exceeded $5 when they were done, especially if it was done on the job.

While license plate collectors often speak of a 'repainted' plate, this isn't exactly what they had in mind. Whoever did this paint job actually took pains to mask the area they were going to paint white, and actually used reflective white paint! The original number was 45-804.

Apparently the I-suffix Loon plates were produced before anyone noticed how much the "I" looked like a one, and the entire run was scrapped...at least, except for this one and a couple of others.

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	Only those well-versed in Maine license plate dies will notice the oddity with these plates - the dies are from the Polyvend company, who manufactured a small number of plates (test batch?) during the mid-1970s. Thanks to Jim Moini for trading the LT Trailer plate to me.
	Here's one that missed the paint machine. Gives you a better idea of just how ugly that [boiled] lobster really was. Too bad they didn't just make it the same red as the text.
	This is what is commonly referred to as an "invert."
	This one is interesting because the "Vacationland" at the bottom is embossed and not screened in red like the previous two examples. These plates were only issued from 1 ES to 1145 ES or so, and were issued during the last two weeks of June, 1999 only. That makes this dead crustacean one of the scarcest of all.
	A chickadee invert that somehow flew the coop.
	This one is self-explanatory. When New Brunswick was powering through the ABC-123 format, the entire 'ASS' series was produced. Someone fell asleep, went out for coffee, who knows. These plates are kind of a badge of honor in the plate-collecting community - any collector worth his/her salt should own one.
	This was quite an interesting find. A replacement plate costs roughly $5, but someone took it upon themselves to surgically repair this damaged Equipment plate. I imagine this project exceeded $5 when they were done, especially if it was done on the job.
	While license plate collectors often speak of a 'repainted' plate, this isn't exactly what they had in mind. Whoever did this paint job actually took pains to mask the area they were going to paint white, and actually used reflective white paint! The original number was 45-804.
	Apparently the I-suffix Loon plates were produced before anyone noticed how much the "I" looked like a one, and the entire run was scrapped...at least, except for this one and a couple of others.