Face Book has become a very popular social networking site.     It originally started with college students and has since opened itself up to just about anyone with an email address.     Recently two major collecting groups, ISCA and Patch-l, have established pressences here.

• The patch-l Face Book group has 65 members as I write this.     That’s a pretty good start since the group was only formed within the past few days and its only publicity has been a single post about it on patch-l.     This is a closed group, restricted to members of patch-l.     You must either be invited by an administrator, or click the link to request an invite.     Kevin Doyle runs this group and will add those who request invites after first verifying they are subscribers to patch-l
• The International Scouting Collectors Association (ISCA) also has a Face Book group.     Membership is restricted to members of ISCA and you must request an invite to join.   Requests to join are granted after ISCA membership has been verified.   It is run by Michael DeLeo.

If you know of other patch collecting related Face Book groups, please feel free to publicize them in the comments to this post.

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Occoneechee 104 J21?+R21?

Greg Grimes has sent me images of several issues about to come from Occoneechee lodge.   Two of these are a new jacket patch and round, designed to be worn together.       The jacket patch (J21?) features totems from the thirteen chapters of Occoneechee lodge, arrayed in a circular fashion as if on a roulette wheel.   The center piece (R21?) features the lodge’s totem in a modernized version of the totem used on earlier issues such as the R5 through R7.

The jacket patch is specifically designed so that there is no “top” or “bottom” to it.     Each brother could wear it so his own chapter’s totem is at the top with the thunderbird pointing towards it.       Some in the lodge have already dubbed this set the “Wheel of Fortune”.     This is not meant to be a slight, as it’s been pointed out that locally patches with nicknames tend to be in higher demand and trade better.

Occoneechee is not the first lodge to issue a jacket patch using this idea.     O-Shot-Caw 265 did something similar with their J10.

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Occoneechee 104 1992-93 Events Patches

“Occoneechee Week” continues here.

In my previous post about the unlisted 1994 events issues for this lodge, I mentioned that the 1992 and 1993 events patches had not been listed either, even though they were a “puzzle patch” with the center piece listed as this lodge’s A1.     Greg Grimes had also commented on that post that there was a variety of one of the patches in this 1992-3 set that was not yet picture on this site.         I can now correct both these problems.

There were two varieties of the 1992 Spring Inductions patch.       The patch was initially issued with a wide cut edge border (picture below at right) , much thicker than the Spring Pow Wow patch from the same year.     This did not fit well with the earlier piece, so the lodge produced another run of this patch with a thin border which matches the other issues in this set.

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Occoneechee 104: Unlisted R5 Variety?

(Editor:   Oops… I had this set to publish on 2/25 or so I thought.     Since it didn’t go through as originally planned, I have back dated this post. )

Greg Grimes recently sent me an image of an unusual copy of Occoneechee’s R5.     He had acquired a R10 and R5b for his collection so was examining what he already had in his collection.           He saw what he had thought was an R5a.     He writes:

I thought I had an R-5a that was my dad’s patch….as it had separation between the red & black chest bars. Well in looking at it, I quickly determined it was not an R-5a due to the antenna, but it has a separation between the red and black bars, unlike the R-5c which has no separation. Could this be yet another variation of the R-5?? R-5d maybe??

The patch in question is shown at the top of this post.

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1992 Three Rivers District Aquaree

I think there will be a short run of posts about patches from Occoneechee lodge and council here.

Recently, I posted here two new issues from Yamni Wakpa chapter of Occoneechee lodge.     They were produced and issued by the chapter (not the district) for a district camporee that this chapter runs and staffs.       The event has gone by various names in recent years, generally tied to the program theme, as was called the “Fishoree” in 2009.     After seeing this post Darrell Wessinger sent me images of two patches he thought could be earlier issues from this chapter.

I sent these images to Greg Grimes who has ordered the patches for this chapter and Occoneechee lodge for the last several years now.     He believes they are district, not chapter, issues.     The 1992 patch is pictured here.

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