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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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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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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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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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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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Posted in Shared Items by John E. Pannell on June 19th, 2009 at 6:33 am June 15, 2009
Popularity: 4% [?]
Lodge 117: Another Fake Arrowhead
Croatan 117 ZA5?
I was recently reminded of an unauthorized arrowhead shaped patch from Croatan. This piece looks familiar to me and I had thought I covered it here months ago. Apparently I did not.
This is a rather poor copy of Croatan’s early arrowhead patches. Most obviously the colors are wrong. None of the arrowheads issued by the lodge were on white twill or had a brown border. The embroidery of the deer is also also a poor copy of the deers used on authentic patches
The listing data for this issue should be as follow:
Popularity: 11% [?]
Tipisa 326: NOAC 2009 & Other Stuff
The Florida lodges are slowly rolling out their 2009 National Conference items, around the same time as their Summer weekend activities. The first to be featured is from Tipisa Lodge 326, releasing their three-piece NOAC set, a puzzle set of flap (S-42), chevron (X-20), and CSP (X-21), all forming a single picture. The theme for their set is “It’s Magic”, as the lodge is located in Central Florida, home of Disney’s “Magic Kingdom” and the Orlando Magic* of the National Basketball Association. Besides the way that the three pieces fit together to form the image, there are lines running through the flap and chevron that glow in the dark.
Rick Obermeyer reported that a fourth piece will be coming out to match the bottom piece, created for the members of Tosohatchee Chapter.
Popularity: 14% [?]
Posted in Patch Collecting by John E. Pannell on June 16th, 2009 at 8:27 pm It’s official. Monday night Otetiana and Finger Lakes councils both voted unamimously to merge. Bill Mulrenin previously reported on his blog the impending merger of these two councils. The merger plan at this time calls for both offices and all camps to remain in operation.
As per policy and practice the two OA lodges, Ty-Ohni 95 and Ganeodiyo 417, will also merge. Look for this to potentially happen as soon as the 2010 charter year.
Popularity: 8% [?]
Posted in Uncategorized by John E. Pannell on June 15th, 2009 at 12:00 am Popularity: 1% [?]
Posted in Patch Collecting by John E. Pannell on June 14th, 2009 at 6:11 pm It was recently announced that Kishkakon 32 and Taleka 81 will merge, following their councils’ merger. The new council is the Lewis and Clark Council, bucking a BSA trend of giving councils names related to their geographic locations. Two two lodges will come together this October and form Nisha Kittan lodge.
According to the lodge’s website, the lodge name means “two great rivers” in the Lenape language. Note that the lodge chooses to spell the first word of their name differently than has been used in other names previously. Nischa Nitis 410 is an example. Kittan is also a name of an active lodge.
The lodge’s totem will be the black wolf. The lodge will use the number 114 which is also the number assigned to the new council by the BSA. The numbers 32 and 81 will become inactive.
A patch design contest is underway. I have been told flaps will not be available until early 2010.
Popularity: 12% [?]
Posted in Shared Items by John E. Pannell on June 14th, 2009 at 5:50 am June 10, 2009
June 11, 2009
Popularity: 5% [?]
Posted in Shared Items by John E. Pannell on June 13th, 2009 at 1:33 pm June 12, 2009
June 12, 2009
Popularity: 5% [?]
Posted in Shared Items by John E. Pannell on June 9th, 2009 at 10:24 pm June 6, 2009
June 6, 2009
Popularity: 6% [?]
Posted in Shared Items by John E. Pannell on June 8th, 2009 at 5:50 am June 5, 2009
June 6, 2009
June 7, 2009
June 7, 2009 – The Scout Association has appointed a new Chief Scout. You can see the British Chief Scout performing some of what he thinks are his primary duties in the video at this link. According to him, one of the reasons Scouting is still growing is because it is so much fun.
Fun? What? No mention of an FOS campaign? No mention of a large corps of professionals and office staff?
The Chief Scout was actually having FUN with the youth membership. He wants to visit as many UNITS as possible during his five year tenure. Not that’s not council banquets, big national events, or training seminars but actual units.
Wow, what a difference there is between Scouting in the US and in the UK.
Popularity: 6% [?]
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.
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.
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.
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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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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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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