Nonagon: Found!
Posted in Patch Collecting by John E. Pannell on October 16th, 2007 at 3:13 am 
Last Spring I wrote a post here on “The Geometry of Patches” in which I wrote about various patches shaped like regular polygons. In that post I lamented about not being able to find a patch shaped as a regular nine-sided polygon (aka enneagon or nonagon). Well, while working on the price guide earlier this evening I found one!
This is not a Blue Book item, as it’s a section conference patch, but still it’s something that was kind of sitting right under the noses of a few regular readers of this blog. I would have thought someone from that flat peninsular state to my south would have picked up on this before. Maybe all that tropical sun made them forget about this one. 
I lifted this patch from the eBay auction, something I generally avoid doing for various reasons, so need an original image of this patch as soon as possible. Can anyone help?
I still have not found a patch in the shape of a regular decagon (10 sides), dodecagon (12 sides), or any higher order polygon. Do you know of any?
Update 10/18/07: Thanks to Robert Mathis for the new image of this piece. He correctly points out that the original post didn’t really consider section conference events as they’re not in Blue Book. He also points out there is a host lodge version of this piece that, following the custom of Florida lodge listings, is not in Blue Book.
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