🚗✨ Montana’s first state-issued license plate (1913) – and one of the rarest! Before 1913, Montanans often made their own plates out of leather, wood, or tin, but that year the state began officially issuing porcelain plates. Very few survived, and collectors consider them among the most desirable early western tags. This plate not only marks the birth of standardized Montana plates, but also tells the story of our state’s earliest motorists braving rough roads, homemade cars, and wide-open cou