VARIATIONS
1906: Front and rear have different designs.
1909: Type 1 - Porcelain, far slots 1 - 693 (693 S)
Type 2 - Porcelain, near slots 703 - 845 (143 S)
Type 3 - Cardboard 1023 - 1100 (78 S)
1911-12: 1-3-digits have thinner "LICENSE" than 4-digits.
JULY 1914: 1-2-digits, 3-digits and 4-digits have 3 different
"LICENSE" sizes.
1914/15, 1-4-digits have 1 1/4" wide end-bands, tall legends;
1915/16: 5-digits have 1" wide end-bands, short legends.
1915/16: Type 1 - Sunken numbers 1 - 3333, 5675 - 16455
Type 2 - Raised numbers 3501 - 5462 (1,962 P)
(Dated "1914-15" prototype? 13011)
1916/17: 1-4-digits have wide bands; 5-digits have slightly
thinner end-bands.
20000-24999 seem to have slightly thinner digits spaced
closer together. 23572 has notched "5" unlike 19559.
1922: Type 1 - Crude dies 1 - 86487
Type 2 - Fine 1921 dies 87406 - 95727 (8,322 P)
1926-29: 1-4-digits read "WEST VA." instead of "WEST VIRGINIA".
1928: 2-3-digits off-center right.
1929: Type 1 - Long slots 1 - 224-765
Type 2 - Short slots 225-600 - 231-399 (5,800 P)
1935/36: Type 1 - No bottom slots 1 - 7-507, 11-707, 12-488
Type 2 - 2 bottom slots 11-499,
24-291 - 219-171 (194,882 P)
1936/37: Type 1 - No top slots 1 - 99-569
Type 2 - 2 top slots 102-959 - 227-814 (124,856 P)
Straight "7" in number (1937/38 72-845 has straight "7",
77-807 has crooked last "7" only, 1938/39 has crooked "7").
1940/41: #1 has flanking hyphens.
Type 1 - No painted border 1 - 246-942
Type 2 - Painted border 252-276 - 257-311 (5,036 P)
1946: Black/White cardboard temporary #250-006 seen, issued when
steel plates ran out (238-696 highest steel seen).
(Bluefield Daily Telegraph, 5/10/1946)
1949: Type 1 - Tall 1934-48 dies 1 - 298-789
Type 2 - Short 1950-56 dies 302-306 - 311-459 (9,154 S)
1950-51: 4-5-digits have long dash instead of hyphen.
1952-56: 4-digits have no dash; 5-digits as 1950-51.
1957-70: 4-digits have no hyphen.
1960: Type 1 - Aluminum, bolt holes 1 - 368-562
Type 2 - Steel, bolt slots 373-949 - 428-822 (54,874 S)
Type 1a 434-342 - 472-618 (38,277 S)
1961: Type 1 - Embossed aluminum, non-reflective, dark red
1 - 73-839
Type 2 - As Type 1, but light red
78-121 - 140-913 (62,793 S)
Type 3 - Debossed aluminum, reflective
142-648 - 190-051 (47,404 S)
Type 4 - Debossed steel, reflective
191-754 - 478-154(286,401 S)
(217-954 has bolt slots; 217-210, 223-846 have bolt holes)
(According to an article in the Charleston Gazette-Mail on June 19,
1960, the last embossed plate was 141-826 while the first debossed
reflective plate was 141-827.)
1962: TYPE 1 - BOLT HOLES TYPE 2 - BOLT SLOTS
1 - 133-896 135-223 -
145-221 - 154-847 - 158-042
162-576 - 195-236 197-159 - 200-304
203-899 - 204-860 205-358 -
216-562 - 218-114 - 224-318
225-758 - 227-283 - 244-639
246-091 - 249-079 249-767 -
252-491 - 489-525
(407,545) (29,907)
1971-76: SQUARE "O" ROUND "0"
OA-1001 - OJ-4848 OJ-8059 - OK-5889
OL-4213 - OM-3410 ON-2221 -
ON-4807 - OR-5440 OS-1894 - OT-4040
1998-2020: Full year date in block same colors as sticker, except
2003 is in black/orange block. "www.callwva.com" added
on 2002-06 plates, dropped again on 2007 plates.
Late 2001 stickers have blue serial, not black.
JAN to MAY 2002 stickered with non-serial-number
sticker. MAY to DEC 2002 issued dated 2002 plates.
Some OCT to DEC 2006 backdated from 2007.
Comma dropped in slogan starting with JAN 2019 plates.
