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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 August 24th, 2009 at 1:11 pm August 24, 2009 – Has anyone ever used the Iris mobile browser?
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Bob White 87 S40?+X13?
Bob White lodge honored a true American hero, unkown to most, on their NOAC set. In this way they provided an excellent witness to the “Power of One”. Jimmie Dyess was an Eagle Scout and Scouter from the Georgia-Carolina Council who posthumously received the Medal of Honor for his actions during World War 2. He is only one of seven Eagle Scouts to have earned the Medal of Honor.
Lt. Col. Dyess was a member of the US Marine Corps reserves. In his civilian life he was a contractor and also served as an assistant camp director. The Georgia-Carolina Council, BSA has also published a brief biography of Lt. Col. Dyess.
His citation read as follows:
Popularity: 9% [?]
Posted in Uncategorized by John E. Pannell on August 24th, 2009 at 12:00 am Occoneechee lodge has produced its second metal flap. They are currently in the lodge’s possession but have not yet been issued. They will probably appear this Fall.The design uses a stylized and modernized thunderbird, previously used on the lodge’s 2009 SR-7B conclave set…
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Lodge 117: 2009 NOAC Set
Croatan 117 S70?+X9?
All for one, and one for all! Croatan lodge latched onto the conference theme of “The Power of One” in their own way and paid tribute to the Three Musketeers on their 2009 NOAC set. Anthropomorphized deer replace Athos, Porthos and Aramis. A carriage, also drawn by a deer appears on the road to Indiana University, the location of this conference.
I do not know if the lodge issued any additional pieces. I heard rumors of a delegate set but cannot confirm that.
The listing data for these patches are as follows:
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Posted in Patch Collecting,Scouting Blogs and Websites by John E. Pannell on August 22nd, 2009 at 6:25 am Now this is patch trading!
Jason Spangler, aka The Santee Swapper, took out his video camera during the evening patch trading at NOAC. Rather than showing every single patch that was out there — an almost impossible task if I say so myself — he wanted to capture the atmosphere of patch trading in Read Hall. The video clip is after the jump.
Popularity: 15% [?]
Posted in Shared Items by John E. Pannell on August 22nd, 2009 at 6:01 am August 22, 2009
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Posted in Shared Items by John E. Pannell on August 21st, 2009 at 10:36 am Popularity: 5% [?]
1966 Dixie Fellowship Patch
The fifteenth Dixie Fellowship, the 1966 Area 6-B Fellowship, returns to North Carolina. The newest lodge in this section, Eswau Huppeday 560, served as host lodge.
Eswau Huppeday was only founded in 1964, so the brothers of this lodge were ambitious to accept the responsibility of hosting an area fellowship so quickly. That is a credit to their dedication and hard work. This lodge has a reputation for being ambitious, innovative and trendsetting, apparently something they earned early in their history.
The patch design is not as elegant as other fellowships from this time period but it does hold to tradition, something that has been greatly valued by the brothers in this area. The lodge’s totem, the cross rifle and tomahawk is featured in the center of this patch. Of course I like the light blue background, pretty close to Carolina blue.
Thanks to Jason Spangler (www.santeeswapper.com) for supplying the images for the Area Z and Dixie Fellowship patches used on this blog.
Popularity: 10% [?]
1965 Dixie Fellowship Patch
Remember when I was regularly blogging about conclave patches from here in the Southeast? Well maybe it’s time I start again.
The fourteenth Dixie Fellowship, the 1965 Area 6-B Fellowship, was held at Camp Coker and Santee 116 was the host lodge.
The design continues to use the basic formula used on other fellowship patches in recent past years with the totem or a symbol of the host lodge being prominently shown. In this case the Carolina Parakeet. Like most representations of this lodge’s totem, the portrayal is based upon a well-known engraving by John James Audubon.
Eswau Huppeday 560 was founded in 1964. This was probably (I have not confirmed it) their first area fellowship. This area would see no new lodges chartered or mergers within its area up to the present day.
Thanks to Jason Spangler (www.santeeswapper.com) for supplying the images for the Area Z and Dixie Fellowship patches used on this blog.
Popularity: 10% [?]
Lodge 104: New Metal Flap to Be Issued
Occoneechee 104 M2?
Occoneechee lodge has produced its second metal flap. They are currently in the lodge’s possession but have not yet been issued. They will probably appear this Fall.
The design uses a stylized and modernized thunderbird, previously used on the lodge’s 2009 SR-7B conclave set (F10?+X39?).
The listing data for this patch are as follows:
Popularity: 12% [?]
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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