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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 May, 2009
Are there too many posts to handle? Maybe you missed out on a great post. Here’s a quick digest of the top posts from last week that you may want to check out:
- Lodge 118: 2009 Spring Fellowship
Posted on Friday, May 22nd, 2009 in SR-7B Lodges – Views: (49)
Wahissa lodge held their Spring Fellowship last weekend. Thanks to Homer Dearmin for sending word of this event patch.The patch shows an artfully done sunrise over a mountain lake. Is this intended to be a scene at Camp Raven Knob?
- Lodge 459: New Sehwatu Chapter Service Award
Posted on Wednesday, May 20th, 2009 in Catawba 459 – Views: (44)
Larry Banks recently sent an image of a new service award patch from Sehwatu chapter of Catawba lodge. The previous chapter service award patch was a chevron meant to be worn on the pocket. This new patch is a pocket dangle featuring a stylized hornet and nest.
- Umpah Update
Last weekend I wrote about a patch bearing the name of Umpah lodge, the predecessor of Wagion 6, which I believe is probably a fake.One of the details offered in support of this patch was a membership card sleeve with a rather unusual typewritten message.
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2007 NE-4C Conclave Patch
I have written a few posts over the course of this blog about patches whose design seems to be taken or inspired by an earlier patch. I last covered a pair of inspired patches in October 2008.
After reading my recent post about Wahissa’s 2009 Spring Fellowship patch, David Scocca noticed the patch looked very familiar to him and sent me a scan of the patch pictured at the top of this post. This was one of several patches using this design that was produced for the 2007 NE-4C conclave.
I think the similarities are too great to be coincidental. The Wahissa fellowship patch design is clearly a simplified version of the design used on the 2007 NE-4C conclave patch. Is this a stock design or did someone seek inspiration in this patch for the Wahissa Spring Fellowship patch?
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Wahissa 118 N5?
This will be a tough one for those “all issues” North Carolina collectors. Thanks to Homer Dearmin for sharing it with me.
In 2007, Wahissa lodge issued a neckerchief for that year’s Vigil class and those who participated in the Vigil induction. There was also a second neckerchief issued. As Homer Dearmin related to me, “This was issued to all Head Guides, Cook Crew, and others integrally involved in the 2007 Vigil Nominating/Ceremony/Induction/Recognition Process.”
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Wahissa 118 eX2009-1?
Wahissa lodge held their Spring Fellowship last weekend. Thanks to Homer Dearmin for sending word of this event patch.
The patch shows an artfully done sunrise over a mountain lake. Is this intended to be a scene at Camp Raven Knob? Note the hidden green fleur d’lis in the grass and the black “2009″ on the left side of the patch.
I also have word of other recent issues from Wahissa lodge which I will cover in separate posts.
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Umpah 6 ZR1?
Last weekend I wrote about a patch bearing the name of Umpah lodge, the predecessor of Wagion 6, which I believe is probably a fake.
One of the details offered in support of this patch was a membership card sleeve with a rather unusual typewritten message. Several collectors have told me they believe the sleeve to be from the late 1940s – early 1950s, and certainly not from the early 1920s when Umpah lodge briefly existed. I have since made an additional discovery about this card sleeve.
Handwritten on the sleeve was a name, David R. McClay, Jr. I was curious and wanted to see if I could find anyone with that name. I wasn’t to surprised when a name turned up. On a lark, I found an email address for the David R. McClay who most likely would be of the correct age to have been a Scout 55 to 60 years ago. I wrote this person and sent him an image of the card sleeve.
I was very surprised when he wrote back and confirmed that this was once his card sleeve!
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Wauna La-Mon'Tay 442 ZS1?
Over the past several years I suspected that the Wauna La-Mon’Tay 442 S2 had been unofficially reproduced. I was told that I was wrong that since around 3000 were made that I was imagining things. I now have proof that the flap was faked.
At the Western Washington Trade-o-ree in March 2009 I traded for a group of patches of which the S2 was a throw in. Neither party knew at the time that this flap was counterfeit. In fact it was several weeks later as I was placing it into my dupe box that I noticed something odd about this flap.
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Catawba 459 Sehwatu Chapter X2?
Larry Banks recently sent an image of a new service award patch from Sehwatu chapter of Catawba lodge. The previous chapter service award patch was a chevron meant to be worn on the pocket. This new patch is a pocket dangle featuring a stylized hornet and nest.
The chapter name is obvious on this patch, but the lodge name is much harder to find. I believe it is “ghosted” in the wings of the hornet. I do not see a fleur d’lis anywhere on this patch.
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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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