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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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Lodge 221: New Elangomat Patch
Chase Crowder recently sent me word of a new elangomat patch issued by Muscogee lodge. At the time of this writing, less than ten of these have been earned.
The bright and attractive patch prominently features the lodge’s red fox totem.
Popularity: 6% [?]
Lodge 221: 2008 Dixie Fellowship
Muscogee lodge issued a single patch, not a flap, for the 2008 Dixie Fellowship. The design depicts this lodge’s theme for the conclave: The Mighty 221. The theme was inspired by the movie 300.
Thanks to Greg Grimes and Brad Hutto for sending me images of this piece.
Popularity: 6% [?]
Post 1801 Fund Raiser Patch
Posted in Atta Kulla Kulla 185,Muscogee 221,Santee 116,SR-5 Lodges by John E. Pannell on April 4th, 2008 at 12:08 am 
Jeff Cook has been trying to keep me up to date with South Carolina items lately After seeing my recent post on possible issues from lodge 185, he sent me the image of the rather unusual patch pictured. It uses the names of three South Carolina lodges but appears to be issued by an Explorer post. He couldn’t remember exactly what the patch was made for, but had seen a few floating around South Carolina the last several years.
Why was this patch made? What’s the connection between the named lodges and “Post 1801″. Jason Spangler was able to provide some answers.
Popularity: 11% [?]
Lodge 221: 2008 Spring Fellowship
Muscogee lodge has issued a patch for their recent Spring Fellowship Thanks to Jeff Cook for sending me word of this new issue.
Like last year’s issues, the plan is for this year’s events patches to follow a seasonal theme. The Spring Fellowship patch appears to be shaped like a shamrock. The design features a fox in what appears to be a salt marsh environment.
Popularity: 6% [?]
Lodge 221: 2008 Region Chief Flap
Brad Hutto has been doing his best to keep me busy with South Carolina issues lately. If only folks in the other 49 states were as eager to keep my busy. Thanks.
Muscogee lodge recently issued a flap in honor of their lodge brother, Mason Thomas, who was elected the Order of the Arrow’s (OA) 2008 Southern Region Chief.
Popularity: 5% [?]
Lodge 221: New Standard Flap
Muscogee lodge has come out with a new standard flap. The flap features an new artistic rendering of the lodge’s fox totem in what appears to be a Southeastern “low land” forest. The artistic style kind of matches this year’s activity patches and I suspect it is the work of the same artist.
Popularity: 4% [?]
Lodge 221: 2007 Fall Fellowship
Muscogee lodge continues this year’s pattern of “seasonal” patches by picturing the fox, their lodge totem, in an autumnal landscape for this year’s Fall Fellowship patch. Muscogee lodge also continues to commemorate their 65th anniversary with this patch. My first impression is that this one is the most artistic and subtle design of the lot. I like it a lot.
Thanks to Jeff Cook for sending me the image of this piece.
Popularity: 5% [?]
Lodge 221: 2007 Summer Fellowship
Yesterday Brad Hutto sent me some scans of Muscogee lodge pieces that were not yet on my site. Among them was the most recent event patch, their 2007 Summer Fellowship. Thanks, Brad.
If you look carefully, you will see that “Camp Barstow” is embroidered below the word “lodge” and the lodge number above “lodge”, in the same colors as the background. The fleur d’lis is to the left of the fox’s head.
The red, orange and yellow in the design remind me more of Fall than Summer, but it is a very attractive patch nonetheless. I appreciate well done designs, especially since I can’t draw to save my life.
Popularity: 4% [?]
Lodge 221: 2007 Dixie Delegate Patch
Muscogee lodge has recently issued its first Dixie delegate patch this century. Thanks to Brad Hutto for the image.
It also pays homage to the lodge’s 65th anniversary. Note the small “65″ between the lodge totem and the LBL fleur d’lis.
“Diamonds Are Forever”. I wonder: will the lodge will be adopting a James Bond theme for this conclave? The “Diamond Anniversary” is traditionally the 60th anniversary, not 65th.
Popularity: 4% [?]
Lodge 221: 65th Anniversary Neckerchief
Muscogee 221 has issued a new neckerchief for their 65th anniversary. 250 were made and have all sold out. Thanks to Tripp Clark for the image of this piece.
Blue Book information is as follows:
| Issue | Bdr Color/Type | Bkgd | Name | fdl/BSA | Comments | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| N5? | GRN | P | WHT | BLK | RED | fdl; 1942-2007 |
Popularity: 4% [?]
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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