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Lodge 270: How Was This Missed?

Posted in SR-5 Lodges, Skyuka 270 by John E. Pannell on July 29th, 2008 at 5:02 am
Skyuka 270 X7.3?

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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