Yamni Wakpa chapter of Occoneechee lodge recently issued its first neckerchief. This is only one of several new issues produced by this lodge. Thanks to Greg Grimes for scanning this piece for me.
I originally wrote this post a couple of weeks ago, but kept delaying its appearance and placing other items ahead of it. Sorry, Greg. The other new issues from this chapter have already been addressed a separate post here.
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"Our firmest convictions are apt to be the most suspect, they mark our limitations and our bounds. Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries."
Jose Ortega y Gasset
This neckerchief sold on eBay a few days ago. It’s an unlisted piece from Aheka 359. The closing price was an astounding $14,655.
Since the eBay link will become inactive over time, a partial screenshot is shown at the top of this post. Click on the image to see a larger version of it. Although it can currently be seen on eBay, I have obscured the buyer’s identity to preserve his privacy once this item is no longer on eBay.
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"Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believing as we already do."
James Harvey Robinson
This was with the group of images Brad Hutto sent me a few days ago. It’s an early hand-painted leather that he says has been in a box since the 1970s. He adds that it was probably used as a neckerchief slide. The design is the lodge’s totem, the double headed thunderbird, painted onto leather.
If this really was a neckechief slide, I am not certain if it should be listed in Blue Book. After all, a slide is not a patch. However there is precedent in Blue Book for listing these types of items. Two lodges spring immediately to mind as examples: Shawnee 51 (L4 through L4.97) and Ne-Pa-Win 161 (eL1950, the only known official issue of the lodge). In the latter example the slide holds a unique historical position as the only known legitimate picece issued by the lodge.
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"Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people."
W. C. Fields
Michael Ryan has pointed out to me that there are “problems” with the Blue Book neckerchief listings for this lodge. He sent me images of four more neckerchiefs that have so far escaped listing in Blue Book.
It seems there has been some confusion and disagreement among various editors here in the Southeast as to how or whether to list conclave contingent items other than basic flaps. That, combined with the relative lack of interest in neckerchiefs until recently, may help explain why these pieces have not been listed before.
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I can see how these were missed.
First the Elangomat Service patch, X21, is listed out of order. Since it has to predate the 1999 segment, its correct chronological place is no later than between the X13 and X14. Apparently this patch was missed for a few years.
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My events listings for this lodge are probably very incomplete as I don't receive much information from this lodge about its issues. The tentative catalog numbers for these items will probably need to be changed if I receive word of other 2007 events issues from this lodge.
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Lodge 104: Yamni Wakpa Chapter Neckerchief
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