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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.
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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 April, 2007
If you haven’t already seen this, check out the “Whatzit” page on the site.
The patch pictured here was a rather interesting one.
The Silver Beaver is flanked by Scouter’s Training Award and Scoutmaster’s Key, above which are what appears to be Boy Scout and Cub Scout service stars. Between the ribbon is written “WWW”, leading to the possibility this could be some sort of OA issue.
Greg Pioppi, of the Minsi Trails Council, was able to solve this puzzle. He writes:
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"The right thing to do never requires any subterfuge, it is always simple and direct."
Calvin Coolidge
I’ll avoid showing my age and leave the “obvious” reference to 1980s music to the readers to figure out.
Camp Bowers is undergoing extensive renovations and has been closed since the end of last Summer. So, the lodge adopted an “Under Construction” theme for this year’s SR-7B conclave.
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"Those who trust to chance must abide by the results of chance. "
Calvin Coolidge
Wahissa is one of the few North Carolina lodges in which it seems I do not have consistently great contacts. I hear about some stuff, but know I’m missing things.
Justin Stirewalt recently wrote me to tell me what I suspected: There are many Wahissa issues missing from both Blue Book and my site. His email gave me a brief list of what’s missing. Some of these are old issues that just never made themselves known to catalogue editors. Others are more recent pieces, where word of them has not yet gone much past the lodge.
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"Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first."
Ronald Reagan
I saw this story last week, was going to post it here and forgot until this morning. In the midst of the carnage and madness at Virginia Tech an Eagle Scout was able to remain coolheaded enough to save his own life after being shot and seriously wounded.
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"They criticize me for harping on the obvious; if all the folks in the United States would do the few simple things they know they ought to do, most of our big problems would take care of themselves. "
Calvin Coolidge
Croatan adopted a “Pirates of the Croatan” theme for this year’s conclave. It was not the first time they had a pirate theme for conclave. The lodge even used it on a Jamboree flap in 2001.
As “Blackbeard” is known to have spent some his last days within the geographical area served by this lodge, their fascination with pirates is not surprising.
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"The United States stands at the pinnacle of world power. This is a solemn moment for the American democracy. For with primacy in power is joined an awe-inspiring accountability for the future."
Winston Churchill
The SR-7B (Eastern North Carolina) Conclave was this past weekend. All the lodges present except Wahissa had at least one new issue.
I will be adding them to my site over the next several days. There will be at least one blog entry for each lodge. First up is my own lodge…
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"When God wants to speak and deal with us, he does not avail himself of an angel but of parents, or the pastor, or of our neighbor."
Martin Luther
Within the members area of my site, one can see a list of the most commonly sold items. Strictly speaking, they may not be the most common patches but rather those most commonly sold, primarily through eBay. While most of the items shouldn’t surprise anyone, a few of them might surprise collectors who haven’t been around “for a while”.
Here’s the current list as of 4/20/2007:
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"The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten."
Calvin Coolidge
Muscogee lodge has recently issued its first Dixie delegate patch this century. Thanks to Brad Hutto for the image.
It also pays homage to the lodge’s 65th anniversary. Note the small “65″ between the lodge totem and the LBL fleur d’lis.
“Diamonds Are Forever”. I wonder: will the lodge will be adopting a James Bond theme for this conclave? The “Diamond Anniversary” is traditionally the 60th anniversary, not 65th.
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"I have heard your views. They do not harmonize with mine. The decision is taken unanimously."
Charles De Gaulle
I recently posted about how Coosa lodge designed their 2006 and 2007 activity patches so as to spell out the words “Coosa Lodge”. I have since been reminded that Coosa was not the first lodge to do something like this. Awase 61 used this idea for their activity patches back in 2001.
Thanks to Dan Graham for sending me this image.
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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
I was sitting up one night recently reviewing closed eBay auctions as adding data to my site and I saw a cool flap issued by Wiatava 13, lodge of the 2007 National Chief. There are also messages from time to time on patch-l and other collecting forums asking whether someone has a list of all the patches issued for the various national officers.
I have a page on this site where one can run Google powered searches, so I thought I’d give this a try. This is the first of what I plan to be an ongoing series. First up is “Home of the National Chief”.
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"Backward ran sentences until reeled the mind."
Wolcott Gibbs
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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 OAImages News by John E. Pannell on April 25th, 2007 at 12:11 am 
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