Lodge 560: Unlisted Prototype?
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Here’s another oddity that many have not seen and I have no real idea what it should be.
While at the SC TOR this past weekend, someone told me Johnny Pleasants had on his table a red bordered flap with the S9 design. “Impossible!” I said, “There is no such flap.” I walked over to Brush Creek’s table and asked Johnny about it. He reaches into one of his bins and pulls out this piece.
He said he got it about 15 years ago and had it previously labelled “QS1″. He didn’t tell me anything more than that he thought it was a sample or something. Purely from the standpoint of one who spends a lot of time studying how patches are classified, I found it very interesting that this piece was never added to the Blue Book listings.
Since there’s no evidence — that I know of — that this was ever a rejected issue and that this looks like it’s a nebulous “something else”, I suggest that YS1 would be a better label for it. Blue Book data is as follows:
| Issue | Bdr Color/Type | Bkgd | Name | fdl/BSA | Comments | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| YS1? | RED | R | M/C | BLK | design of S9 | |
| Eswau Huppeday 560 page on OAImages.com | ||||||
I’ll risk coming across too harshly here. Since this has not been listed in any of the six past editions of Blue Book, even though it’s been owned by the named North Carolina Blue Book regional editor, I cannot say if or how this will be listed next time around.
(Ed. Note: Oops. I had written this late on the night of 6/30 but hit “save” instead of “publish”. So this entry is backdated by a few hours.)
Unfortunately, this is not the only reborder that exists, others have surfaced but none ever issued by lodge, it is probably correct that 15 years have passed since this issue was current. It definately was not a prototype ordered before production, but a post production rebordering.