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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 September, 2007
Occoneechee lodge will issue two more patches this weekend in honor of their 70th anniversary. Thanks to Greg Grimes for sending me the images of these pieces.
Both patches feature modern reinterpretations of classic Occoneechee patch elements. The arrows protruding from a circle and thunderbird were separately used in early lodge issues. See the lodge’s R1 through R7 for examples of these.
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"If you will not fight for the right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a small chance of survival. There may even be a worse case: you may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves."
Winston Churchill
Some may have noticed that I’ve been seemingly slow to add stuff to the site lately, both images and prices. I’ve been having some technical issues that I hope will be worked out soon.
The “real world”, some other interests and a general lack of time have slowed down my work on adding images as well as dealing with the issues involving the price guide. That has been the greatest of the technical problems.
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"A leading authority is anyone who has guessed right more than once."
Frank A. Clark
ISCA is conducting a survey on patch collecting and collectors. I have received the following email from Jody Tucker (jody@manions.com), EVP-WWW for ISCA, and an publishing it here with his permission.
Jody writes:
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"If you will not fight for the right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a small chance of survival. There may even be a worse case: you may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves."
Winston Churchill
This will be a very short post on this day of infamy:
Remember.
After six years of pundits, commentators, writers and talking heads covering and commenting on this event, there isn’t much more to say. Please mark and remember this day in your own way.
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"...The task is overwhelming, and the chance is slight. We must take the chance or die."
Robert Hutchins
The Boy Scouts of America has announce a contest to create a logo for their upcoming centennial celebrations. This email was recently shared with us on patch-l. I do not know who within the BSA sent it but the message seems to have been widely broadcast:
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"Adversity makes a man wise, not rich. "
Romanian Proverb
All of the lodges in Florida, from time to time, have used a theme for their activity pieces to be issued during the year (either January to December, or a year-long period corresponding to the term of the respective Lodge Chief). This is a practice first begun by Seminole Lodge 85 back in 1968-69, but Tipisa 326 has been the most famous practitioner, having used an annual set every year since 1973-74. Many of the lodges have also issued a jacket patch, referred to as a “year patch”, that ties into the theme of the weekend event pieces, and provides an additional source of revenue. From what I have been told, Osceola will not have a year patch with their 2007 set.
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"In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act."
George Orwell
Brad Hutto also sent this to me last week. Even though it says “Union District” it is believed that this is was issued by Union chapter for the district’s Spring camporee. The inclusion of the “WWW” in the design would lead us towards believing this is a lodge or chapter issue, but in my opinion is not conclusive proof.
Can any South Carolina collectors out there challenge or confirm Brad’s assertion? What do you all think about this?
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"Pray as if everything depended upon God and work as if everything depended upon man. "
Francis Cardinal Spellman
Hank Birdsong and Garrick Smith have been keeping me up to date on the situation regarding the fakes of Tsali’s 2002 NOAC flaps. Both have forwarded to me an image of the S42 with its fake, which was acquired from an eBay seller in British Columbia, for comparison purposes. Click on the image to see a much larger version of the picture.
The fake is the bottom patch in the image. As they note it is a very good fake. It would easily fool anyone not very familiar with the patch or aware that a fake exists. Very few of these were made, so most collectors would never have seen the real thing except for in a picture .
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"If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion. "
The Dalai Lama
What if Apple sold Scout patches? What if patch sellers behaved like Apple?
Apple, Inc. has been in the news recently because of a dramatic price cut for their new iphones. This has angered some of the early adopters. Apple responded by offering various rebates, most prominently a $100 credit in the Apple store for those who bought the phone more than two weeks ago. That the price went down shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone who pays attention to “techie stuff”. But still folks, were upset at the price reduction being so large and so quick.
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"There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome-to be got over. "
Arthur Schopenhauer
The long-running side project that pre-dated the OAimages blog, Florida Collectors’ Newsletter, has been available in electronic format since 2006. The latest issue is available in .pdf format, at http://floridacsp.com/fcn/ . The Summer issue is entitled “The Shoulder Patch Issue”, mostly from all of the World Jamboree and “Friends of Scouting” stuff (what we call, FO$), but it has the latest news of OA stuff from Florida. It is a large download, about 9.7M.
If you are interested in getting an e-mail notification of new issues, please contact David Weda with your request, at David_K_Weda@fpl.com . Feedback and submissions are always welcome.
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"An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes, which can be made, in a very narrow field."
Niels Henrik David Bohr
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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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Lodge 104: 70th Anniversary Patches
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