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From January 1953, owing to the Federal number plate system, Victorian plates switched to the three-letter, three-number standard: GAA-000 to HZZ-999, and JAA-000 to LZZ-999, coloured white lettering on a black background, and a "Vic" insert on the top of the plate. [4] The first three-lettered plate, GAA-000 was issued on 27 January 1953. [5]
AGFA photographic plates, 1880 Mimosa Panchroma-Studio-Antihalo Panchromatic glass plates, 9 x 12cm, Mimosa A.-G. Dresden Negative plate. Photographic plates preceded photographic film as a capture medium in photography. The light-sensitive emulsion of silver salts was coated on a glass plate, typically thinner than common window glass. They ...
A typical plate which might be found on a semi-trailer, registered to a company in QLD would be QT·88MW. [4] ALL FIRS scheme plates ceased accepting renewals on 1 July 2018 and FIRS closed on 1 July 2019, after all FIRS registration expired and plates exchanged to the new National Heavy Vehicle scheme/state based registration plates.
Characteristically the background colour is white and the image blue, but various factories have used other colours in monochrome tints and there are Victorian versions with hand-touched polychrome colouring on simple outline transfers. In the United States of America, the pattern is commonly referred to as Blue Willow.
An ex libris (Latin for 'from the books'), [1] [2] also known as a bookplate (or book-plate, as it was commonly styled until the early 20th century), [3] is a printed or decorative label pasted into a book, often on the front endpaper, to indicate ownership. [4]
Fashion plates should not be confused with costume plates. As outlined by the French social and cultural historian Daniel Roche, there was a point when depictions of costume and of fashion "diverged": [16] the latter came to depict clothes of the present day, while the former came to represent clothes "after the event", that is, after the epoch of the fashionable style.
A large number of plates were issued with defective paint causing them to fade quickly. -- Longhair | Talk 01:40, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC) Well, mention it then! I've enhanced the Victorian section, and plan to further enhance it with some piccies tomorrow when its less dark, but I don't know any more than you've just said.
Portuguese Palissy ware wall plate 12.2 in, c. 1880, maker Jose F Sousa depicting crayfish, mussels, sea urchin and shells. Portuguese Palissy ware was produced by the potteries of Mafra, Jose Alves Cunha, José Francisco de Sousa, Cezar, Herculano Elias, and Augusto Baptista de Carvalho. [3] Twentieth-century reproductions are extremely common.