Sounding Like a Broken Record?
Posted in Patch Collecting by John E. Pannell on September 19th, 2007 at 10:57 pm At the risk of sounding like a broken record, I’ll jump on my soapbox again about special awards and fake patches. If you want to give a special award to one or some of your lodge brothers, please take my advice and don’t make it a patch!
I was recently writing to a friend of mine in another lodge about an ongoing problem they have had with a certain award’s patch. The lodge leadership created an award scheme for brothers who made a very significant service commitment to one aspect of the lodge’s program. They were to be awarded a special jacket patch upon completion of the requirements. After a couple of years, very few brothers had earned the award but the patches started to show up on eBay in quantity. This is a very familiar story. The manufacturer had used an overseas subcontractor and additional supplies made their way into the collectorate. This shouldn’t suprise anyone anymore.
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