THE FINAL DVLA NUMBER PLATE AUCTION
On Friday 20th October 2023 the final "LIVE" auction of DVLA number plates was held, 1000 number plates were sold for the last time in a live auction room by the DVLA marking the end of an era.
The first ever auction was back in 1989 when Christie’s were the auctioneers on behalf of DVLA Sale of Marks. In this auction just 74 lots offered for sale at Christie's, South Kensington, London, with the first lot offered for sale by DVLA, 99 MG, selling for £8,000 (big money back then). The highest price that day was for 1 A, which sold for £160,000. That registration remains amongst the top 10 highest prices (at a DVLA number plate auction) 34 years later. Read on to see some of the other lots which were amongst the first 74 ever auctioned.
