Lodge 104: Prototype Woven?
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Earlier this evening my good friend Woody Woodruff came by my home with some interesting pieces from his collection to scan for my website. After first having a wonderful dinner at an excellent local Italian restaurant, we sat down to business.
Some of the items he brought are very rarely seen. A few of them are not yet listed in Blue Book. The first of these is an apparent prototype of Occoneechee’s 45th/60th anniversary wovens. It came from another well-known North Carolina collector who recently sold much of his collection and is a member of this lodge.
Blue Book information for this piece should be as follows:
| Issue | Bdr Color/Type | Bkgd | Name | fdl/BSA | Comments | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| YW1? | RED | BLK | BLK | design of 45th/60th anniversary wovens | ||
I haven’t checked yet, but this is probably the first and only “YW” issue.
"One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half."
I think it could easily be a thread break or lack of thread. Certainly, if it were a prototype, it would be much closer to what would have been issued so the lodge would have approved it? I think tagging it and others like it as prototypes sets a bad standard. If the lodge received it as a prototype, then, there would be record of it within the lodge, if not, I would be more likely to believe that this was a mistake, sold out the backdoor of the patch company with the rest of the errors.
It’s clearly NOT a thread-break. The color behind “Occoneechee” is blue on the original flaps and gold on this one.