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June 11, 2017 By Ray Dominey

What type of aluminum (numbers and monograms) do you use?

Our most challenging monogram is from Oklahoma. We hope you like it.

A most challenging monogram is from Oklahoma. We found this little known example with the intricate lace-like “OKLA”. We hope you like it.

Our numbers and letters are aluminum stampings made using century old dies with the same Roman (serif) font commonly found on original early plates.  Often, when repairing an original plate, we can use our stock font numbers and letters to match the originals.  Our newly created monograms are cut from aircraft grade flat stock aluminum (.125″ thick); this is the same alloy as our stampings:  6061 Aluminum T-6 Just as was done 100+ years ago, the majority of monograms were individually cut from flat stock aluminum.  For example: taken directly from the 1911 Beckley-Ralston catalog page (illustrated on our Home Page) “Hand-sawed monograms can be supplied for any state desired from factory only.”

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Please contact me direct.
Thank you for your interest.
Tom Lahey
Green Cove Springs, Florida
tom@leatherplates.com

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