Vehicle license plate frame

Apparatus for mounting a license plate to a vehicle, comprising:

• a frame molded of a relatively incompressible transparent plastic material having a periphery, an outer side, and an inner side for disposal adjacent a license plate, an elongated annular channel molded into the inner side of the frame near the periphery of the frame, the channel having a bottom and sides extending inwardly from the bottom of the channel toward the license plate;
• a relatively compressible elongated annular elastomeric gasket injection molded onto the inner side near the frame periphery, to fill the channel, and to molecularly adhere or wet the bottom and sides of the channel, and having a generally planar receiving surface inwardly facing toward the license plate;
• and
• a plurality of mounting fastener holes formed in the frame, each mounting fastener hole having a continuous sidewall, formed integrally with the frame, which extends from the outer side of the frame to the inner side of the frame, the gasket closely laterally surrounding the mounting fastener holes, the sidewall extending inwardly to be substantially coplanar with the generally planar receiving surface of the gasket, wherein the sidewalls of the mounting fastener holes prevent the fasteners from overcompressing the gasket and fracturing the frame.