Most Commonly Sold Items
Posted in OAImages News by John E. Pannell on April 21st, 2007 at 1:02 am Within the members area of my site, one can see a list of the most commonly sold items. Strictly speaking, they may not be the most common patches but rather those most commonly sold, primarily through eBay. While most of the items shouldn’t surprise anyone, a few of them might surprise collectors who haven’t been around “for a while”.
Here’s the current list as of 4/20/2007:
| Lodge | Issue | Mean Price | Number Sold |
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| 1. | 70 Tsoiotsi Tsogalii | S1 | $3.79 | 220 |
| 2. | 50 Coosa | S1 | $6.50 | 218 |
| 3. | 5 Minsi | S1 | $13.85 | 187 |
| 4. | 209 Netopalis Sipo Schipinachk | S1 | $8.70 | 122 |
| 5. | 2 Sanhican | F1b | $10.67 | 119 |
| 6. | 310 Kaskanampo | S13 | $6.31 | 119 |
| 7. | 51 Shawnee | S1a | $4.88 | 118 |
| 8. | 57 Kiasutha | S1a | $8.91 | 117 |
| 9. | 198 Kansa | S1 | $5.65 | 116 |
| 10. | 2 Sanhican | F1a | $11.83 | 114 |
| 11. | 1 Unami | S1b | $8.10 | 112 |
| 12. | 21 Jaccos Towne | S2 | $8.06 | 110 |
| 13. | 50 Coosa | S5 | $3.90 | 109 |
| 14. | 159 Ho-De-No-Sau-Nee | S1a | $4.83 | 109 |
| 15. | 1 Unami | S1a | $8.24 | 108 |
| 16. | 159 Ho-De-No-Sau-Nee | S1b | $4.57 | 108 |
| 17. | 50 Cherokee | R3 | $7.17 | 107 |
| 18. | 407 Shunkah Mahneetu | S35+X17 | $12.20 | 107 |
| 19. | 50 Coosa | S6 | $4.58 | 106 |
| 20. | 67 Black Hawk | S1 | $17.09 | 106 |
It’s interesting to me that a solid from a lodge that merged over 30 years ago ranks high on this list. I wonder how many of these were cranked out by the guys in Minsi!
It was also interesting to see three items, obviously so much more common than other. The other 17 are all but in a virtual statistical tie.
Remembering back to when our S1 first went on sale, I am not at all surprised that it remains the most commonly sold item. I am a bit surprised though, to find the Coosa S1 is about to overtake it.
John,
Combining the 159 Ho-De-No-Sau-Nee S1a and S1b from NY puts it right amongst the leaders too. The same could be said for the Unami and the Sanhican. For most collectors there would be litttle or no difference.
Where would a 159 S1 sale without a variety distinction be added to your data base? That would have an effect on your rankings too if it is not included in any of the variety numbers.
Maybe grist for another post?
Litttle with three t’s must mean very little
When a variety is not immediately determinable the price guide entry gets added to all the possible varieties.
So, in the case of the 159 S1a/S1b, the data is already distorted in a way, showing more of each being sold than there really were. In this case I just don’t know which of those S1s were S1a and which were S1b.
One really needs to look at the entries, in the case of such “close” varieties, as being more representative of the issue and not each individual variety.
The other interesting point is that #2 Coosa S1, #6 Kasakanamp S13, #13 Coosa S5, #17 Cherokee R3, #19 Coosa S6 are all the same lodge now. Kaskanampo and Cherokee along with Achunanchi 135 merged to form Coosa.