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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.
"Continue reading" to see the list.
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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 September, 2009
Last Friday RoadRunner started blocking email from my server because of spam without my knowledge. I had been filtering all my incoming mail at OAImages through my RoadRunner so as to filter out most of the several hundred spam messages that I get every day. RoadRunner apparently did not like that. I had no idea the server was being blocked until I saw over 800 notices that email was rejected on my server’s queue last night.
This is now resolved and I am now receiving mail again, but it is coming directly (unfiltered) to me from my server, spam and all. I am currently working to block the spam.
If anyone sent me email between Friday morning (9/18) and this morning (9/21), please don’t assume I received it. I probably did not see it. Please send again.
Thank you.
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Catawba 459 C2?
Larry Banks recently sent word and an image of a new chenille jacket patch that Catawba lodge is issuing in advance of their 60th anniversary in 2011. This is the third issue from the lodge for this anniversary. It follows the “A4?” issued in 2008 and the recent “M1?”
The central part of this design is very similar to the A4 and is based upon the lodge’s A1.
The listing data for this new patch are as follows:
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In H. Eves Mathematical Circles Squared, Boston: Prindle, Weber and Schmidt, 1972.
J. W. A. Young
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:
- 1970 Dixie Fellowship
Posted on Monday, September 14th, 2009 in Area 6-B – Views: (48)
Catawba lodge hosted the eighteenth Dixie Fellowship, the 1970 Area 6-B Fellowship. This was the first official meeting of these lodges in two years. There were no area fellowships in 1969 in Region 6.A traditional representation of Catawba’s hornet’s nest totem is the central design element of this patch.
- 1971 Dixie Fellowship
Posted on Wednesday, September 16th, 2009 in Area 6-B – Views: (62)
Eswau Huppeday 560 hosted the nineteenth Dixie Fellowship, the 1971 Area 6-B Fellowship.Eswau Huppeday has been known for unusual and flashy patches. While this one is certainly unusually shaped, especially for the early 1970s, the color scheme is atypically subdued. The patch appears to represent a cotton boll.
- Shared Items From the Web – September 19, 2009
Posted on Saturday, September 19th, 2009 in Shared Items – Views: (42)
Lionel to Introduce BSA 100th Anniversary Collector Train Set and BoxcarSeptember 11, 2009 2010 OA Service Grant Applications Due October 31stSeptember 17, 2009 LotR re-read: Two Towers IV.
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Tsoiotsi Tsogalii 70 J7?
Tsoiotsi Tsogalii lodge recently issued the third in its series of “Four Chieftains” jacket patches. Participants and staff at the lodge’s LLD are given one of these with the remainders being sold to fund the next year’s LLD program. The fourth and final patch in this series will be released at the lodge’s 2010 LLD.
Thanks to Johnny Somers for sending along the image of this piece.
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This bit of gloating is just for Greg.
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And to think this happened on “Talk Like a Pirate Day”, too!
I don’t really care about college football, but couldn’t pass up the chance to gloat, be an “OCF” and pick on a friend or two!
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1971 Dixie Fellowship Patch
Eswau Huppeday 560 hosted the nineteenth Dixie Fellowship, the 1971 Area 6-B Fellowship.
Eswau Huppeday has been known for unusual and flashy patches. While this one is certainly unusually shaped, especially for the early 1970s, the color scheme is atypically subdued. The patch appears to represent a cotton boll. The lodge’s totem, the crossed musket and tomahawk appear in the center of the patch.
A mug and neckerchief were also produced for this event. I do not presently have images of these pieces.
Thanks to Jason Spangler (www.santeeswapper.com) for supplying the images for the Area Z and Dixie Fellowship patches used on this blog.
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John Adams
Atta Kulla Kulla: 2009 OA Service Corps Patch
Brad Hutto sends word of an interesting new issue from Atta Kulla Kulla lodge. As is readily apparent this was issued for the 2009 OA Service Corps. There are some aspects of this patch that might confuse those not from the lodge’s immediate area.
I would appreciate some input from the brothers of this lodge, or other knowledgeable people, to confirm some information. Was this item issued by the lodge or Blue Ridge Council (BRC)? If issued by the council, then this item doesn’t get listed under Atta Kulla Kulla lodge. Was this item for a specific event? If so, what was it? The answer would determine whether this should be listed as an event item (eR2009-…) or a lodge issue (R…).
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1970 Dixie Fellowship Patch
Catawba lodge hosted the eighteenth Dixie Fellowship, the 1970 Area 6-B Fellowship. This was the first official meeting of these lodges in two years. There were no area fellowships in 1969 in Region 6.
A traditional representation of Catawba’s hornet’s nest totem is the central design element of this patch. This is similar to the 1963 Dixie Fellowship patch and would later be used on the 1976
A mug and neckerchief were also produced for this event. I do not presently have images of these pieces.
Thanks to Jason Spangler (www.santeeswapper.com) for supplying the images for the Area Z and Dixie Fellowship patches used on this blog.
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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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Posted in OAImages News by John E. Pannell on September 21st, 2009 at 1:12 pm 
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