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Lorne Grabher is very proud of his unique family name, which comes from German origins. It's displayed on the front of his house, as well as on his personalized licence plate. "Well, I am the only one in Eastern Canada," says Lorne Grabher. "I originally had it done for my father back in 1991 for his birthday. It was to have our name be put on something and be proud of it." But in December, Grabher received a letter from Nova Scotia’s Registrar of Motor Vehicles, telling him they'd received a complaint and had deemed the licence plate 'socially...

Masked man pays $1.15m for plate From correspondents in Hong Kong February 21, 2005 A MYSTERIOUS man in a mask drove off with the most expensive vehicle licence plate sold in Hong Kong since 1997, paying $HK7.1 million ($1.15 million) at a weekend auction, a newspaper reported today. The man, who wore a surgical mask and would not identify himself, left the auction immediately after winning the bid for licence plate number 12, which sounds like "certainly easy" in Cantonese, the South China Morning Post said. The price was the highest for a licence plate in Hong Kong since the...