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April 15th, 2012
Looking for Trading Stock?
Over the past several years I have accumulated an abundance of flaps. This is an opportunity for you. I can now offer lots of ten (10) different and assorted flaps, all mint and no spoofs/fakes, for $40 postpaid to US addresses.
Please, at this time this is a limit of one lot per person. No requests for particular issues or lodges can be honored. My extras are stored in boxes and I will pull them out ten at a time at random.
If interested please send payment via PayPal to me at jpannell@triad.rr.com. Please remember to include your address. Thanks and happy collecting!
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March 7th, 2012
Lodge 296: Region Chief Flap, "MVE"
Greg Grimes recently sent me this image of two RED bordered 2012 Home of the Region Chief flaps, showing something he noticed about them. Apparently there may be thin and thick letter variations in this issue. To me this is not significant enough to be listed as a variety. It is for cases like this that my site uses the notation, "MVE" (minor variations exist).
I told Greg I would share this image with fellow collectors. What do you think? Chase after this variation or not; that is completely up to you!
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March 5th, 2012
Breast Cancer Patch Checklist
Now that there is a growing list of breast cancer related patches as well as a devoted group of collectors chasing after them, I thought now is a good time to put together a list of those issues. I now know of at least 18 issues from 12 lodges, including a key fob and one chapter issue.
"Continue reading" to see the list.
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March 4th, 2012
Ahoalan-Nachpikin Issues Breast Cancer Flap
Ahoalan-Nachpikin lodge from Memphis, TN has joined the growing list of lodges (and one chapter) that have issued patches in support of breast cancer research. As with many others, this issue is also a pink monochrome. Thanks to Nick DeMarco for supplying this image.
If you know of any other patches that have been issued for this cause, please either send the images to me or comment on this post below. Thanks.
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February 21st, 2012
2012 NOAC Issues Page Added
I have just added a page to this site showing lodge issues for this Summer's National Order of the Arrow Conference (NOAC). You may view it here:
http://www.oaimages.com/noac12.shtml
Presently on a few issues are shown. If you know of any that should be added, please let me know. This list should grow rapidly as we get closer to NOAC.
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Archive for February, 2007
There was a discussion on patch-l on the proposed USPS rate increase.
Nothing has been approved yet, and current media reports disagree with this published rate case, but it does promise changes that will result in significant increase in shipping costs for those who sell patches online. It was reported that patches would be treated as “parcels” and subject to that higher rate, regardless of weight, if the package was not thin enough to pass through the Postal Service’s sorting machines. These were topped only by the even more significant proposed changes in international shipping costs
In a related topic Chris Jensen of Streamwood, Inc. posted a message about how worthless the USPS’ insurance is, especially when shipping outside of the US. With his permission, I share what he wrote: Continue Reading »
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"When you control the ball, you control the score. "
Pele
Sometimes patches are issued for rather unusual reasons. Some of these reasons are interesting, trivial, or silly. Occasionally patches are issued for personal and charitable reasons. I was recently made aware of one of these.
Japeechen 341 has issued a flap for breast cancer awareness. There is a very good reason for this flap. In explaining the reason behind this issue Nick DeMarco writes:
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"Backward ran sentences until reeled the mind."
Wolcott Gibbs
Thanks to the guys at ScoutHistory.net, Cloth Talk #24 is now available for downloading either through iTunes or by direct download at http://www.scouthistory.net/blog/. Remember, you do not need to have iTunes installed in order to listen to Cloth Talk. They also have a dialup-friendly version available for those who do not have high speed internet connections.
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"Where I am, I don't know, I'll never know, in the silence you don't know, you must go on, I can't go on, I'll go on."
Samuel Beckett
This image was recently sent to me. Those familiar with Occoneechee’s 2006 NOAC pieces may notice the error almost immediately. The thunderbird is seen here holding the Prince of Wales Trophy, which he only holds on the white bordered F5.
I have talked to my usual sources within this lodge. It is not a fake of any type. Rather it appears to be a manufacturer’s error that someone got into the supply of patches sent to the lodge when they reordered the black bordered fundraiser set. Continue Reading »
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"Television is where you watch people in your living room that you would not want near your house."
Groucho Marx
Tsali lodge has issued a flap and pocket dangle for the 2007 Dixie Fellowship (SR-5 Conclave) to be held this April. The lodge has chosen a Super Mario ™ theme for this year’s conclave as both the patch and dangle show.
You have to look carefully to find the lodge name on the dangle. It’s written in Cherokee in white thread.
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"An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last."
Sir Winston Churchill
“Come gather ’round people
Wherever you roam
And admit that the waters
Around you have grown
And accept it that soon
You’ll be drenched to the bone
If your time to you
Is worth savin’
Then you better start swimmin’
Or you’ll sink like a stone
For the times they are a-changin’. ”
– Bob Dylan
I had shared this with some friends of mine and thought it was worth sharing with readers of this blog. The link will take you to an audio-visual presentation about 6 minutes long.
I had seen most of this information before, but not in one place in such stark form… for the times truly are changing.
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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
Tsali has issued a new jacket patch and three segments designed to be worn with it. While the jacket patch has no explictly specific purpose, the segments are all related to the lodge’s Dance and Drum teams championships.
The three segments are “Group Dance Champions 2006 Dixie”, “Group Dance National Champions 2006 NOAC”, and “Southern Drum Third Place 2006 NOAC”. Continue Reading »
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"Ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country."
John F. Kennedy
Hank Birdsong recently sent me word and images of several new issues from Tsali lodge. For reasons of clarity, I am breaking this up into three posts.
The first issue is an event patch issued for Tsali’s 2007 Winter Banquet. Blue Book style information for this patch is as follows:
| Issue |
Bdr Color/Type |
Bkgd |
Name |
fdl/BSA |
Comments |
| eR2007-1? |
DBL |
R |
M/C |
WHT |
DGR |
fdl; 2007 Winter Banquet |
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"Industry, thrift and self-control are not sought because they create wealth, but because they create character."
Calvin Coolidge
Yet another fake of a 2003 conclave flap has recently surfaced on eBay. Greg Grimes tipped me off to its appearance on eBay early this morning. This time it is the S32 that has been faked.
The seller of this piece, patch-works, has a reputation for selling fakes. Barring other evidence, you can safely assume anything he sells is a outright fake or Chang-type fake. Continue Reading »
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"Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing."
Thomas Jefferson
In a perfect world the Order of the Arrow and its ceremonies inculcate the virtues of the Order upon its members. Brothers willingly serve as elangomats. The attend service projects and give their service selflessly. They eagerly seek more knowledge and seal their membership in the Brotherhood. They look forward to attending lodge events and sign up for them as soon as registration is opened.
However we do not live in a perfect world so lodges have come up with incentives to increase various types of participation within the lodge. One of most commonly used incentives is a patch.
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Mike Godwin
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Recent OAImages News
April 1st, 2012
April Fool!
It should go without saying that my post about this site being sold to a Google/eBay partnership was my annual April Fool's post. I have no plans at this time to give up or sell this web site. Long time readers will know this has become quite the tradition here and I usually start planning the posts several months in advance. The most famous (infamous?) of these was 2008's post concerning the abolishment of lodge names. It still creates difficulty from time to time for those in authority in the OA and BSA due to the inability of some to detect obvious (in my opinion) satire.
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April 1st, 2012
OAImages Soon Under New Ownership
This post contains important information regarding the future of this website. Please read carefully.
Many have noticed that I have found it hard to maintain this website for quite some time now. Due to various reasons, some of them beyond my control, updating the price guide regularly has become all but impossible. Things have become a bit less chaotic, but after 15 years this has become a chore. I also know that there will come the day when control of this site will need to be passed to another. With all that in mind, I have been considering various options for the future of OAImages. In the midst of this, a several months ago I was contacted by someone who made me an offer that was too good to resist. After many months of negotiations I am now free to announce that this site has been purchased by a combined partnership of Google and eBay. This will be effective July 1, 2012.
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January 30th, 2012
Tschipey Achtu Lodge: Update
Back in 2010 I announced the formation of Tschipey Achtu lodge as a result of the merger of Ty-Ohni 95 and Ganeodiyo 417. At the time I was told they would use the number 397, which is also their council number. This created a bit of controversy as that number is currently in use by Chilantakoba lodge in Louisiana. I also announced their first flap. Other than a 2010 Jamboree issue no further news from this lodge made it to me.
I was talking with a Roger Ward last night who was at the recent Winter South Carolina Trade-O-Ree. He tells me it has not been quiet in that lodge. The use of 397 was problematic. Many wanted to choose a different number. Some wanted to claim the number zero, but that was not well received given the special place Unami 1 holds in the Order of the Arrow. The Scout Executive, I am told, stepped in and told the lodge they will use the lower number from the two merged lodges.
The lodge is now known as Tschipey Achtu 95. I have updated the site to reflect this current information. Several new issues have also been added.
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January 14th, 2012
An OAImages iPad App?
Some of those who know me personally, know that I have gone over to the "Dark Side" and have started using Apple products. I bought an iMac a couple of months ago and just recently got an iPad. My brother is trying to tell me that my Droid's days are numbered.
I really like my iPad and started day dreaming about an OAImages app for it. I have no idea how to go about writing this and it would take me into an entirely new area from what I know. It's not something that would happen easily or soon. Here's your chance to give feedback. What do you think about an OAImages app? What would you put in it? Do you have any thoughts on how it would be distributed or how much it would cost?
Please feel free to comment. Comments are moderated for those who have not successfully had a comment published on this blog before in order to control spam. I will do my best to approve comments as quickly as possible in order to facilitate a discussion.
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October 4th, 2011
Indian Summer and Summit Corps Patches
I have added special pages on this site for the 2011 Indian Summer and 2011 Summit Corps. I still have a few images to add but most of what I have images for is now on the site. Thanks for Rick Horne for most of these images.
To view these items, go to OA Images: National and Special Events Patches page and select either of these events from the "Other Specialties" drop down box.
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August 27th, 2011
Coming out of Hiding About April 1st
It's kind of odd to come out of hiding to post about a topic like this.
I'm hearing from some brothers that there have been gullible readers to this blog over the years. I would have thought it was obvious from the context of the posts, but the various posts made on this blog throughout the years that have appeared on APRIL FIRST are all satire. None of them are true. Read them and chuckle but please do not complain to your friendly OA National Committee members, Scout Executives, lodge advisers, or official website administrators about the "changes" that are "announced" in them.
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Posted in Patch Collecting by John E. Pannell on February 27th, 2007 at 2:20 am 
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