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June 22nd, 2010
Second Jamboree Trade-O-Ree Announced
I had previously passed along an announcement from Roger Ward of a Trade-O-Ree to be held during this Summer's BSA National Jamboree. Richard Shields has also asked me to share information about another Trade-O-Ree that will be held near the Fort A.P. Hill.
2010 NATIONAL JAMBOREE TRADE-O-REE
Sponsored by The Society of Scout Memorabilia Dealers
Fri. July 23rd Sun. Aug 1st
Fri. 7/23 3pm to 1am; Sat. 7/24 noon to 1am;
Mon-Thur 7/25-7/29 Noon to 11pm
Fri. 7/30--Sat. 7/31 noon to 1am; Sun Aug. 1st noon to 5pm
Buses Welcome Plenty of Free Parking
Buy, Sale and Trade
All kinds of Boy Scout Memorabilia
Eagles Lodge
21 Cool Springs Rd. Fredericksburg, VA
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June 16th, 2010
Jamboree Trade-O-Ree Announced
Roger Ward recently sent me information for a trade-o-ree (TOR) to be held near this Summer's BSA National Jamboree. I gladly pass this along here.
2010 Jamboree 100th Ann BSA Patch Show At
The Ramada Inn Fredericksburg South,VA
Siesta Beach Trading Company presents the
2010 Jamboree 100th Ann BSA Patch Show
Friday July 23rd to Tuesday August 3rd, 2010
12 Day Show From Friday To Tuesday
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June 15th, 2010
Just Whose Centennial Is It?
Many lodges and councils are issuing patches this year for the BSA's centennial. I even recently started to build a page on this site for these issues. However this isn't the only significant Scouting centennial that will occur within the next few years. Gap Danish recently sent me an image of a new jacket patch from Nachamawat 275 (Penn's Woods Council, PA) that I believe may be the first OA lodge or chapter issue for the Order of the Arrow's centennial in 2015!
The patch's design pays tribute to the history of the OA in this lodge's area. It includes the totems of Nachamawat's predecessor lodges -- Hopocan 275, Wopsononock 347, and Amadahi 441 -- as well as the current lodge totem and that of Unami 1. It also includes three different National OA logos rendered as smoke.
It will probably be some time until OA centennial issues start appearing in earnest. When they do, a page will be added to this site for them.
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June 13th, 2010
Tschipey Achtu Issues First Flap
I recently announced on this blog the formation of Tschipey Achtu lodge. At that time I had no news about patches. Mike Conkey recently acquired the newly issued first flap from this lodge and thanks to him for providing this image.
Notice that the new flap bears no lodge number. In that earlier blog entry I reported that the lodge's web page on the council's website refers to this as Tschipey Achtu Lodge #397, even though lodge numbers are no longer assigned on a national basis. There has been some discussion about this.
At this time I have no further details about the patch. This lodge's issues will be shown on the Tschipey Achtu lodge page of this site.
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May 6th, 2010
National OA Issues for BSA Centennial
The National Order of the Arrow is selling several items of merchandise in their online trading post for the BSA centennial. These items include a flap (conveniently sold either singly, or in three, 10 or 20 patch bundles), neckerchief, neckerchief slide, cap and hat pin.
The single flap is sold enclosed in a special portfolio and includes a message from the 2010 National Chief and Vice Chief. It is clearly states this flap is not to be worn on the uniform.
Upon trying to place an order, a shopper is advised that, "Any orders containing BSA 100 Anniversary products will not be shipped until June 15th, 2010."
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March 28th, 2010
Made In China
Check out this recent post on Roy More's blog:
http://thescoutpatchauction.com/blogsite/2010/03/23/this-is-wrong
I am not a supporter of Big Labor and learn very much to the political and fiscal right however I agree with Roy that there is something inherently wrong with this.
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Archive for July, 2008

Cuyahoga 17 X1
I turn to the Buckeye State for this installment in the series about state shapes on patches. Through the years there has been 35 different lodges headquartered in Ohio, 23 of which are no longer active. Several of these have used the shape of Ohio on their patches.
In addition to using the shape of this state in the design, this list includes classic issues shaped like Ohio as well as modern two-piece sets forming a similar shape. Issues include odd-shapes, flaps, neckerchiefs, event patches and one chapter issue.
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Santee 116 J4?
Santee lodge has issued a new jacket patch in commemoration of the lodge’s 70th anniversary. This is a large 8″ round patch and shows the various poses of the Carolina parakeet that have been used on the lodge’s patches through out its history. The parakeet in the center of this patch is used here for the first time and may appear on a future lodge flap.
Thanks to Jason Spangler for sending me this image.
The lodge produced 200 of these patches. Brothers were able to pre-order up to five of these pieces. After filling the pre-orders very few remained. These were all sold to the new Ordeal members, one per person.
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Skyuka 270 X7.3?
Apparently there is a common issue from Skyuka 270 that has been missed by Blue Book editors for nearly fifteen years. I’m guilty here, too, as I had seen the patch before. I never neither really bothered to get it as I don’t particularly collect South Carolina nor made a scan of it. Thanks to Rick Horne for sending along this scan.
There are thre three odd-shaped patches from Skyuka lodge issued for their 50th anniversary in 1994. X7 is in the shape of a mountain, like the lodge’s X2 and X3, but expanded to add a buttonhole and a gold mylar (GMY) border. X7.5 in an oversized CSP issued by the lodge with a silver mylar (SMY) border. Pictured here is a second CSP, identical to the X7.5 but with a GMY border which I have labeled “X7.3?”.
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1967 Area 6-A Fellowship Patch
The eight lodges of Area 6-A returned to Camp Raven Knob for their 1967 Area Fellowship. They had previously met there in 1956 and 1962. Wahissa 118 was the host lodge .
The patch issued for this event is shown here. As had become customary, Wahissa’s totem, the calumet, figures prominently in the patch design just below the bonnet.
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1966 Area 6-A Fellowship Patch
Tslagi 163 hosted the 1966 Area 6-A Fellowship at Camp Cherokee, near Reidsville, NC. The pocket patch for this event shows a representation of Tslagi’s totem, roughly modeled after the lodge’s flap. It’s not my favorite 6-A patch, but I still think it’s a nicely rendered design.
Like Occoneechee’s Camp Durant, this camp has also since moved. Cherokee Council closed this camp after the 1966 Summer season. Camp Saurakee, a camp for special needs children, is now run at this location.
The present Camp Cherokee, officially the Old North State Scout Reservation, opened at its present location in Caswell County in 1968. It is now the home camp for Tsoiotsi Tsogalii lodge.
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Ag-Im 156 1993 Events Issues
Here is the next entry in the series of posts on state shaped patches, and state shapes used in patches. About a third of the states have now been covered. Previous entries may be found in the category, “These 50 States.”
Michigan is one of the more difficult states to depict on a patch. Its territory consists primarily of two peninsulas, roughly positioned perpendicular to each other. It is largely bounded by Lakes Huron, Superior and Michigan. As such, no patch is in the shape of the entire state. Many patches depict one of the state’s two peninsular. Ag-Im has issued two sets of event patches shaped like the state’s upper peninsula.
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1965 Area 6-A Fellowship Patch
Once again, the lodges of Area 6-A broke with their tradition of holding their area fellowships at Scout camps. Croatan 117 hosted the 1965 Area 6-A fellowship at Camp Lejeune.
Notice that there is no indication of the host lodge — either in words or by totem — on the patch. Was this some sort of tradition with Croatan?
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In 2005 Occoneechee lodge issued a blue monochrome flap (S58) in order to help raise funds for a proposed new lodge building. This was to be the first of several such patches, issued one at a time at lodge events. However the lodge leadership changed. The new officers were not so keen on this idea and no further monochrome flaps were issued. That will soon change.
The lodge will issue four more monochrome flaps. In preparation for these issues Shelby Patch Company produced four different prototypes. Two copies of each were made. One set remains in Shelby’s archive. Occoneechee lodge owns the other set. There has been some thought given to the lodge auctioning its set of prototypes, like they did for the S58 prototype (YS2?).
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Tali Taktaki hosted the 1964 Area 6-A Fellowship at Camp Wenasa. The lodge’s totem, a juvenile blue heron, is portrayed here as it is on many of the lodge’s flaps.
Tali Taktaki lodge disappeared in the first of the two mergers to hit Scouting in North Carolina. Camp Wenasa, too, is no longer around. Its former location is now home to a housing subdivision.
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Occoneechee 104 hosted the 1963 Area 6-A fellowship at Camp Durant, just four years after they last hosted in 1959. This time around only the lodge name was used on the patch. Their thunderbird totem does not appear.
Some North Carolina collectors may not realize that this is not the same Camp Durant we know today. Then the camp was at a different location, now run by the city of Raleigh as the Durant Nature Park.
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Recent OAImages News
August 31st, 2010
I Got Plenty of Nothing
"I got plenty o'nothin' and nothin's plenty for me..."
Wow, where did August go? Most of the month has gone by with nothing new appearing on this blog. It seems like it was only a few days ago that I was struggling with the server switch and site relocation. That is all done now and things appear to be going well. There are still some issues with broken links and missing images but I may be able to resolve that over the weekend. It's good to not have to worry about possible hardware failures.
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August 8th, 2010
25 Hours Later
The mail server at OAImages' new home has now remain unblocked by what I call the "internet gods" for over 25 hours now. That's a very good sign that they agree my server is clean and not a spammer. It appears my email problems are now resolved.
I only wonder who had this ip address before me and what were they doing to merit notice by CBL.
I will continue to monitor this situation. However if you have trouble getting email from this site's server, especially concerning passwords for the members area, please see my previous post on this subject.
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August 7th, 2010
Concerning Email and Broken Links
Update: 8/7/10 @ 1400: The block by CBL has been lifted for over four hours now. This is a good sign, but not a resolution of the problem below... yet.
Automated emails from this site's mail server are currently being blocked by many or most ISPs. It has been listed on the Composite Blocking List for being compromised in some way. I have already had it delisted, but it has been listed again.
This most directly affects subscribers to the site as it prevents automated messages concerning passwords from being delivered. I consider this a critical issue. If it cannot be resolved soon, I will return to the old server and hosting solution. In the mean time, please read the rest of this message if you are experiencing difficulties logging into the members area!
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August 6th, 2010
Watching The Traffic
I've been watching the traffic flow into the site since I flipped the switch here last night. It looks like DNS entries propagate very fast these days! That's a far cry from what I remember when I first built this domain when it still took several days for a DNS change to take effect.
If you want to see what sort of traffic this site gets, you can view the stats here:
http://www.oaimages.com/webalizer/usage_201008.html
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August 5th, 2010
Wilkommen, Bien Venue, Welcome
If you see this post you have accessed OAImages on its new home. It has been running at its IP address for over a week now. A few days ago, oaimages.net was pointed here. Late Thursday night, the switch was flipped for OAImages.com. It may take a couple of days for the DNS changes to propagate around the internet so some visitors may see this site sooner than others.
I expect there to be a few hiccups. Please let me know, preferably in the comments, if you experience any problems.
Thank you.
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July 28th, 2010
Today's Status Report
"Everything is in a state of flux, including the status quo." - Robert Byrne
Another portion of this site's move has been accomplished. This blog's software, Wordpress, is now installed and running at the new location. Perhaps I should call it "OAImages Blog 2.0"?
Until the move is final, this blog will continue to be updated periodically. However, my primary focus now is on the site move. All previous blog posts and data will be transferred to the new location in due course.
My goal is to be moved into the new location by the time everyone returns home from the Jamboree, or shortly thereafter.
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