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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 March, 2009
Santee 116 eX2009-2?
The first two 2009 events issues from Santee lodge have been issued. Once again thanks to Jason Spangler for the news and images of these pieces.
First patch of the year was the 2009 Winter Banquet patch, featuring a night time scene and (based upon what I remember of the camp) possibly intended to be a specific spot at Camp Coker. The 2009 Spring Fellowship patch (pictured, left) reminds me of a school or fraternity crest that, if larger and done as a chenille, might be worn on a jacket or sweater.
The listing data for these two items are as follows:
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Eswau Huppeday 560 eA1986-1
Eswau Huppeday lodge has been sponsoring an annual American Indian dance and culture seminar since at least 1986 called the Carolinas Indian Seminar (CIS). It draws several hundred attendees from the eastern United States. It is not restricted to OA or Scouting groups. All interested in American Indian dance and culture are welcome to participate.
Many other lodges have hosted similar events. The earliest OA patch I know for such an event may be for the Sundance Camp, later Sundance Fellowship, hosted by Canaliño 90 in 1946. Having recently hosted their 24th annual CIS, Eswau Huppeday lodge may have the longest currently running event of this nature.
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How soon unaccountable I became tired and sick,
Till rising and gliding out I wander'd off by myself,
In the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time,
Look'd up in perfect silence at the stars.
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Santee 116 eX2008-3?
I had previously blogged about the 2008 Spring Fellowship patch from Santee lodge. Now I am able to report the rest of the lodge’s events issues for last year. Thanks to Jason Spangler for also filling me in on these.
Santee lodge commemorated its 70th anniversary on all the events issues in 2008. Each was in a different unusual and odd shape. Except for the Winter Banquet patch each of these items prominently featured the lodge’s totem, the Carolina parakeet.
As I had suspected when I wrote the blog post for the Spring Fellowship, there was a Winter Banquet patch to be placed before it. The numbering on the blog was correct, but recorded incorrectly on the main body of this site. That has since been changed. The listing data for these items are as follows:
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Santee 116 S21a and S21b
Jason Spangler reports that a new variety has been found of the S21 from Santee lodge.
The first variety of this patch (top) was issued by Santee lodge in 2006 and was the Ordeal flap from the lodge’s last OBV set. Then in 2007 the OA issued an Operations Update that announced a prohibition on separate lodge flaps by OA honor. Separate Ordeal, Brotherhod and Vigl flaps were officially forbidden.
Santee lodge was told they needed to comply with this policy. They would not reorder the current stock of the Brotherhood (S22?) and Vigil (S25?) flaps when supply was exhausted. The Ordeal flap became the lodge’s de facto combined honors flap. The initial supply was quickly exhausted and a reorder was made, that was essentially identical to the first run.
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Occoneechee 104 F10?+X39?
Occoneechee lodge recently issued their items for the upcoming SR-7B Conclave. These included a flap and chevron (pictured, left) and a neckerchief.
The lodge has adopted a superhero theme for this conclave. On the two-piece set the thunderbird is seen clutching three arrows. On the neckerchief he is costumed in tights and a purple cape. Both the patch and chevron are embroidered on navy blue (NBL) felt. Purple and gold continue to be dominant colors in this lodge’s patch issues. One would almost think there is an ECU alumnus advising the lodge’s patch committee.
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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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Lodge 116: 2009 Events Patches
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