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My friend Jason Spangler, also known as the Santee Swapper and host of the Scouting Hot Finds newsletters and podcast has assembled a free guide to spotting the fake Chinese made OA patches currently appearing on eBay.
A Guide to Identifying Recent Chinese Fakes on eBay
This is an extensive 24 page treatise on these patches, with many illustrations. It documents the fakes produced by various sellers over the past several years. It also discusses the marketing strategies of those who produced these fakes including the stealing of images from this website.
This is a must read for almost any collector who wants to avoid being taken by these fakes.
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[caption id="attachment_6836" align="alignleft" width="90" border="0" caption="Wahunsenakah 333 Piankatank Chapter Winter 2011 Service"]
I have written several posts on this blog about patch designs that appear to have been copied or "inspired" by other designs, quite often from different lodges. For example see the first and second posts using this same title. Another example is this post on more "inspired" patches.
The patch pictured at the top of this post was a recent chapter event issue from Piankatank chapter of Wahunsenakah lodge. (Editor's note: Please see correction in comments). The lodge is chartered to the Colonial Virginia Council which could easily explain the American Revolution theme of the design. However, the lodge totem is a duck so the hawk's head might appear to be an unusual choice.
A friend gave this to me. He acquired it a Trade-O-Ree and thought of me once he saw the design. It's obviously taken from Tsoiotsi Tsogalii's 2010 SR-7B conclave flaps, listed on this site as S34? and S35?.
Perhaps someone in Wahunsenakah can fill us in on the story behind Piankatank chapter's choice of patch design. The artist of the lodge 70 flaps should be flattered that someone in another lodge was so impressed by his design that he chose to adapt it for his chapter's event patch.
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How many of you remember this song from "Sesame Street"? I saw a friend of mine at the Winston-Salem Trade-O-Ree last weekend. He usually has a great assortment of patches, many classic material and items from our area. However he wants it to be known that he isn't just interested in old patches, so he puts the frame pictured here on his table. I'll let him remain anonymous unless he chooses to step forward here.
One of those patches seems oddly out of place (really two but one sticks out more!). Do you see it? It's not quite as obvious as recognizing letters and numbers, but still very easy to see! Every time I see this frame I chuckle a bit. It's a good way to start a conversation. Now you all can join me in a good natured chuckle.
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Last weekend I rode with Greg Grimes and Roger Ward and paid a visit to our mutual friend, Larry Banks. On the way there I was shown a book, published in 1938, given to members of Chappegat Lodge.
The book included the lodge by laws and rules. It included instructions on how to wear the "bands", as the OA Sash was called then, and lodge pin. Specifically, Brotherhood members were instructed that the bands and arrow on the lodge pin were to be worn pointed toward the left shoulder. It was also stated that the lodge pin could not be given to a non-member of either sex. This refers to the custom, still practiced today, of fraternity brothers giving their pins to their girl friends as a token of affection. The centerfold was the brother's membership certificate.
The music and lyrics of the OA song and the lodge song were also printed in the book.
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There has been some discussion recently on patch-l about an eBay seller currently using the id, "discountbar". He is operating out of Huhhot, China and selling fake Boy Scout patches.
Several members of that list have pointed out that he is stealing images of real patches from this site and using them to illustrate his auctions. Winning bidders report they do not receive the items pictured, but instead get computer designed fakes of those patches.
Posted in Shared Items by John E. Pannell on October 31st, 2009 at 11:16 am October 28, 2009
Popularity: 10% [?]
Ok, so I am a little late with this post. 2009 saw the change of W-1A into W-1S and with it some advisorship changes. I became the Merchandising advisor for the section. What that entails is that the Trading Post, On-Line Trading post, Merchandise marketing and anything that is not food or program materials come under my leadership (of course I have a Conclave Vice Chief that works with me).
The conclave this year was well attended with over 450 Arrowmen from Oregon, Washington, California, Colorado and Idaho in attendance. The conclave was held at Camp Baker (Oregon Trail Council) on the central Oregon Coast. Food was outstanding and the fellowship was superb. The shows was spectacular thanks to Paul Collett and crew.
Since we had a new designation, I went all out to exploit it. Thus almost all the patches made for this year have Charter Member on them. We stuck with what the previous advisor had done and issued 4 pocket patches. Red Border for Participants, Blue Border for Staff, Gold Mylar for Auction Donation and Black Border for the Collector’s set. The amount made decreases with each batch with only 120 made of the black border.
There were 4 jacket patches made this year. The regular Charter Member Jacket Patch (150 Made) was the most common. All of these had less than 30 made. The Special Edition Jacket Patch (14 Made), The Patron Jacket Patch (30 Made) and the Guardian Jacket Patch (6 Made). The special edition was by special collector’s lottery only (Yes I got one). The Patron Jacket Patch required a $300.00 donation in cash and/or memorabilia (I got one of those too) and the Guardian required spending $1000.00 at the auction (I did not get this one). All of the patches are pictured in this article. I still have some of the participant, staff and auction patches available, along with the Charter Member Jacket Patch.
Next years conclave is scheduled to be held at Camp Rilea (Oregon National Guard), near the mouth of the Columbia River.
Popularity: 12% [?]
Posted in Patch Collecting by John E. Pannell on October 27th, 2009 at 4:01 pm 
107 Unilachtego ZS1?
There is an old adage about what happens if one assumes. Randy Holden recently gave me an example of why one shouldn’t assume.
A few years ago this privately made patch bearing the name and number of “Unilachtego 107″. Given the history of lodge 107 and what was already published in Blue Book, and a proclivity for the recycling of some old lodge names, I assumed this was a predecessor lodge to Kon-Kon-Tu 107 that never had an authentic issue. That was where I was wrong.
Popularity: 15% [?]
Posted in Uncategorized by John E. Pannell on October 26th, 2009 at 12:00 am Popularity: 1% [?]
Posted in Shared Items by John E. Pannell on October 25th, 2009 at 5:50 am October 22, 2009
Popularity: 6% [?]
Posted in Shared Items by John E. Pannell on October 24th, 2009 at 3:00 pm October 23, 2009
Popularity: 6% [?]
Posted in Shared Items by John E. Pannell on October 22nd, 2009 at 5:51 am October 15, 2009
Popularity: 10% [?]
Posted in Shared Items by John E. Pannell on October 21st, 2009 at 2:29 pm October 14, 2009
Popularity: 6% [?]
Posted in Shared Items by John E. Pannell on October 21st, 2009 at 2:29 pm October 14, 2009
Popularity: 6% [?]
O-Shot-Caw 265 “Jamboree” series 2008-2010
The latest piece in the 2008-2009 2010 activity patch series for O-Shot-Caw 265 is now out, with the lodge’s Fall Ordeal. The designs for the series have been appropriations of National Jamboree patch designs; this latest piece is from the 1977 Jamboree.
Seven more designs to go….
Popularity: 15% [?]
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.
This is strictly an "FYI" post for those familiar with the issues facing those who maintain blogs and message boards where readers can post comments.
Recently I had been having issues here with comment spam getting past this blog's filters. I deleted the inappropriate posts as quickly as I could but this was still unacceptable to me, as well as additional work. I since have required that readers register before they're allowed to post comments here. That seems to have stopped the spammers.
I still see a number of probable spammers, mainly from Russian domains, registering on this blog but so far none have had their comments posted successfully.
I may test my luck for a short period of time in the near future. At some unannounced time, I will turn off the registration requirement for posting comments for a day or two. I want to see if the spammers have been chased away, or if they're just awaiting an easy opportunity to push their garbage
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This blog is being hit with a large number spam comments lately. There have been over 12,000 attempts to spam the blog with comments just within the past 60 days. Recently a few dozen comments, hawking service and goods I deem inappropriate for this blog, made it past the filters. Since I don't desire to spend more time deleting the spam as I find it and don't want inappropriate information to sit on my blog, I am tightening up the policy on commenting here.
Those who wish to comment must now register and be logged in before being to post comments. Registration is free and is not the same as membership to this site. This is a common practice on many blogs especially among sites run by more "traditional media" type companies.
It is with shock and sadness that I pass along this message Tim Brown forwarded to me this morning:
With deep regret I must announce that my son, Matthew Thomas Kirkland, 31, passed from this world at 9:30 this evening. Matt suffered a massive stroke last night. We are having Matthew cremated and will hold a private ceremony in Memphis at a later date. For those who knew Matt, if you desire, to make a donation to the Transatlantic Council, Boy Scouts of America in his name. http://www.tac-bsa.org/Home.html
Matt was a significant contributor to this site, especially for Black Eagle lodge 482. He will be missed.
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