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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 April, 2008
John has beaten me to the punch with postings about the recent Section S-4S Conference. Osceola Lodge 564 hosted the event, held at Flying Eagle Scout Reservation near Bradenton. Over 1000 Arrowmen were in attendance. The number of patch traders seemed to be lower than usual, making it hard to find some of the more difficult items. Along with the host items that John had previously mentioned, three lodges (Aal-Pa-Tah 237, Echockotee 200, and O-Shot-Caw 265) made items for their lodges’ attendance at the Conference.
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"[Mathematics] is an independent world created out of pure intelligence."
William Wordsworth
Here’s a little bit of silliness for your Sunday afternoon. Two professional engineers illustrate the proper care and practical benefits of cats. None of the cats, humans, or engineers were mistreated in the making of this film. They were however, slightly annoyed.
Those who are owned by cats or are cat lovers will appreciate this. Those who cannot understand the feline intellect may learn something. I present “An Engineer’s Guide to Cats.”
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"Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good."
Calvin Coolidge
Several of the S-4S lodges issued odd-shape patches for their delegates to the 2008 S-4S conclave. Collectors are not united in their opinion on how to list lodge delegate patches that are not flaps. Until the listing are officially updated, I have listed them as odd-shapes, “X” issues, in the main body of lodge issues.
Aal-Pa-Tah lodge’s issued green bordered oval. It features a pair of alligators depicted as an American Indian man and woman. I have listed this on the site as “X59?”.
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"Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience."
Laurence J. Peter
Several of the S-4S lodges issued odd-shape patches for their delegates to the 2008 S-4S conclave. Collectors are not united in their opinion on how to list lodge delegate patches that are not flaps. Until the listing are officially updated, I have listed them as odd-shapes, “X” issues, in the main body of lodge issues.
Echockotee lodge’s issue is a gray bordered oval. In keeping with the lodge’s sea life theme for its 2008 activity patches, this issue depicts an eel. I have listed this on the site as “X26?”.
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"I don't think most people associate me with leeches or how to get them off. But I know how to get them off. I'm an expert at it. "
Oliver North
This is the next group of images recently sent to me by Robert Mathis. He usually comments on Florida issues here, but I am filling in for him for these recent issues.
Osceola lodge was the host lodge for this year’s S-4S conclave. The lodge issued three flaps which all followed a similar and very colorful design scheme. The green bordered flap pictured was their unrestricted issue.
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"Television is where you watch people in your living room that you would not want near your house."
Groucho Marx
Robert Mathis recently sent me these images, but is a bit short on free time to write a blog post for them.
Aal-Pa-Tah lodge has recently issued several patches for this Summer’s ArrowCorps5 events. The first of these of these is the flap pictured here. It is a modernized variation on their traditional alligator on a log design. I have labeled this flap S93.
Several odd shapes were also issued.
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"In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act."
George Orwell
In recent years OA Sections here in the Southeast generally all hold their conclaves on the third and fourth weekends in April. With Easter falling especially early this year, the schedule has been stretched out. Three sections are especially relevant to the lodges normally covered here.
S-4S, peninsular Florida, held their conclave this past weekend. We should have some updates for the new issues appearing there soon.
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"Each place has its own advantages - heaven for the climate, and hell for the society."
Mark Twain
Irv Block sent me an image of this flap he acquired in trade some time back. He was expecting an S1 but got this flap instead. I’ve been slow to do anything with it because I don’t know where to place this on my site.
Blue Book describes the S1 from this lodge as measuring 127x65mm. This flap is significantly squatter at only 120x63mm. None of the other issues’ descriptions fit this flap.
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"Industry, thrift and self-control are not sought because they create wealth, but because they create character."
Calvin Coolidge
I was recently asked a question about using the online inventory feature in this site’s members area. In a way I was a bit embarrassed that I hadn’t thought of this before.
Each user has their own inventory file stored on the server which they can have sent to them, to use offline however they chose. The first field of the file indicates the lodge using an alphanumeric string that is the same as the first part of the file name for each lodge’s web page on this site. For example, the code for White Horse lodge is “201b”. I was asked if there was another file that could convert this to the lodge’s number or name.
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"If you knew what I know about the power of giving, you would not let a single meal pass without sharing it in some way. "
Buddha
This news is a couple of weeks old now, but I have only just now noticed it.
Roy More reports on his blog about a new Malaysian “faker”, Wishingtree07, now listing his wares on eBay. He also posts a pdf file of this seller’s current offerings.
Like Roy, I don’t really understand his selection of items to fake. Some of the fakes have higher prices than the real items they copy. Clearly this seller is not well educated about the Scouting collectibles secondary market.
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"We should not let our fears hold us back from pursuing our hopes."
John F. Kennedy
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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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Section S-4S 2008 Conference
Posted in Aal-Pa-Tah 237,Echockotee 200,Florida Lodges,O-Shot-Caw 265,Osceola 564 by Robert Mathis on April 21st, 2008 at 3:00 am 
John has beaten me to the punch with postings about the recent Section S-4S Conference. Osceola Lodge 564 hosted the event, held at Flying Eagle Scout Reservation near Bradenton. Over 1000 Arrowmen were in attendance. The number of patch traders seemed to be lower than usual, making it hard to find some of the more difficult items. Along with the host items that John had previously mentioned, three lodges (Aal-Pa-Tah 237, Echockotee 200, and O-Shot-Caw 265) made items for their lodges’ attendance at the Conference.
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