Lodge 104: New Monochrome Prototypes
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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?).
I propose the following listing data for these four flaps:
| Issue | Bdr Color/Type | Bkgd | Name | fdl/BSA | Comments | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| YS3? | GRN | R | LGR | GRN | GRN | fdl; interior of antennae different shade than background |
| YS4? | ORG | R | LOR | ORG | ORG | fdl; interior of antennae different shade than background |
| YS5? | LPR | R | LVI | LPR | LPR | fdl; interior of antennae different shade than background |
| YS6? | RED | R | SAM | RED | RED | fdl; interior of antennae different shade than background |
| Occoneechee 104 page on OAImages.com | ||||||
Were there specific changes requested between the prototypes and the final patches? Or will the issued patches be indistinguishable from the prototypes?
[...] I had written about a set of prototypes that were produced during the preparation of four monochrome flaps to be issued by Occoneechee [...]