These 50 States: Arizona
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This is the tenth in an ongoing series of posts about state shaped patches. Previous entries have covered state shaped patches from Alabama, Connecticut, Florida, Kentucky, Montana, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia.
Now I turn my attentions to the desert southwest. The lodges of Arizona have had some beautiful and interesting patches thorughout the years. Papago lodge is thought to be the originator of what collectors now refer to as the two-piece set: a pocket flap with a matching pocket patch, usually with a similar theme and sometimes with a continuous design across the two patches. However it appears that only one lodge has issued patches based upon the shape of the state of Arizona.
Wipala Wiki lodge’s jacket patches are traditionally in the shape of Arizona, often featuring desert scenes or wildlife. Arizona shaped jacket patches include the J1 (varieties), J1.5, J2 (varieties), J4, J5, J7 - J9, J11, J12, J15, J15.5, J16, J17, J19, J20?, J21?. There are also fakes of some of these issues.
The X0.5 (varieties), issued for the Butterfield trail also uses this shape. There is also a lone chapter patch, Tuwasanasavi chapter X1, from this lodge shaped like Arizona.
Finally there are two attractive patches, labelled by me as eX2004-3? and eX2004-4?, made in the shape of Arizona. These were for the 2004 W-4C conclave. I do not know right now whether these were lodge delegate issues or section issues.
Do you know of any others I may have missed?
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