Show Your License Plate Toppers

[Bumpus Jones]

back from the dead...

[ruth-gehrig]

No doubt about it....nothing wrong with 10 bucks!

[ooo-ribay]

ebay, 13 years ago

[Tigerden]

Red Wingsb.jpg Sorry the photo was taken with my iPhone and sideways. I have had this plate topper for 25 years and have never seen another. It is special to me because it was given to me by my brother who found it in a vacant garage in Detroit that was being demolished. He knew I was a collector and gave it to me. Thanks big bro!!Its from the 50's and similar to a Phillies Whiz Kids topper that does come up for sale once in a great while. Great thread Carlton. I love these and was a under bidder on the Centennial license plate topper.

[billyb]

Tigerden,

Great item, where did you find that???

[Tigerden]

Originally Posted by billyb

Tigerden,

Great item, where did you find that???

Thanks Bill. I didn't find it but my brother worked for a demo crew one summer while away from college and salvaged it during a job. Apparently it was nailed to the wall inside an old garage along with a few old rusty metal signs. I often wondered if this topper was given to the players or people within the Wings organization when. The Wings won the Stanley Cup in the fifties. For all I know it was ripped off of Gordie Howe's Cadillac back in the day! Hope not , that would mean I was in possession of stolen property but you never know considering its intended use as a license plate topper.

[CarltonHendricks]

Tigerden, Since your brother gave it to you as a gift you probably wouldn't want to...but I wonder what it would bring if you put it on eBay : - )

http://www.santarosasurgerycenter.co...hunkiid=669412
I used to work with a guy from Santa Rosa CA who was friends with Gordie Howe and said he lived there...I googled Goride and Santa Rosa and got the link above to a 2012 posting which appears to point to that...unfortunately it reveals he had dementia...

Santa Rosa California...other celebrities who lived there was Charles Schultz and Fred McMurray...neither of which generations past baby boomers will likely recognize LOL...

[ooo-ribay]

Originally Posted by Tigerden

Attachment 135905 Sorry the photo was taken with my iPhone and sideways. I have had this plate topper for 25 years and have never seen another. It is special to me because it was given to me by my brother who found it in a vacant garage in Detroit that was being demolished. He knew I was a collector and gave it to me. Thanks big bro!!Its from the 50's and similar to a Phillies Whiz Kids topper that does come up for sale once in a great while. Great thread Carlton. I love these and was a under bidder on the Centennial license plate topper.

sweet, sweet, sweet!