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In the latter part of last year I was made aware that Catawba lodge had planned a new set of Ordeal, Brotherhood and Vigil flaps.   Shortly after that the directive came down from the National Committee that lodges were not to make special flaps for the various honors.   I had assumed Catawba issued the flaps anyway, as they were in the works, and left space on my site to insert them once I had images.

Recently Larry Banks told me that due to this new directive the Ordeal and Vigil flaps were not produced.  Only the Brotherhood flap was made and issued.   I pressume the lodge had run out of stock of their former brotherhood flaps before the change in policy and needed the new flap.

The general design for this flap is rather similar to the previous Brotherhood flap, S83.   There are some differences however.   The most readily identifiable difference is background on this new flap is a CD style diagonal pattern while on the S83 the stitching lines up in nice neat vertical columns.   The background on this new flap is also a much lighter shade of green, leaning towards some shade of olive.

Since the matching Ordeal and Vigil flaps will not be made, I have renumbered the Hunter Chapel flap.   Blue Book data for both these issues is as follows.