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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.
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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 SR-5 Lodges
Atta Kulla Kulla 2011 Events Patches
This might be my last post on South Carolina OA issues for a little while, unless I hear about more new issues. Atta Kulla Kulla issued three events patches in 2011. As with the 2011 events patches from Unali’yi lodge, these are intended to form a single continuous design. Once again, thanks to Brad Hutto for these updates.
The patches form a totem pole, with each event patch being placed above the previous one. Atta Kulla Kulla used this design idea previously in 1999, 2004, and 2009.
Listing data are after the jump.
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Skyuka 270 eX2012-1?
With the usual gratitude to our South Carolina contributor, Brad Hutto, I continue these updates with two more new issues from Skyuka lodge. One is a new round issued for the 2011 Executive Committee. The second is the 2012 Banquet event patch.
The 2011 Executive Committee patch is a round featuring a small encampment of tipis in front of a mountain range. “2011 Executive Committee” is ghosted in the background of the patch.
The 2012 Banquet patch is in the shape of the state of South Carolina. In addition to the lodge event, this patch pays tribute to the Cowpens National Battlefield.
Listing data are after the jump.
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Skyuka 270: S49?+X34?
Skyuka lodge has issued a set for this Summer’s National Order of the Arrow Conference (NOAC). It features a Scout in what appears to be an older style Boy Scout uniform in front of a skyline. In the sky is a search beacon with the lodge totem on it, in a fashion similar to what was used in Bat Man. Thanks to Brad Hutto for keeping this “South Carolina Week” going.
Note the use of “Michigan State ™”. This university is very protective of its trademarks and has made the BSA aware of what its lodges are not allowed to use without its permission.
Following past practice I would expect additional issues from the lodge as we get closer to NOAC.
The listing data for these issues are after the jump.
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Unali'yi 236: 2011 Events Patches
This week of South Carolina updates continues with the 2011 events issues for Unali’yi lodge. Thanks again to Brad Hutto for the image of these patches.
The 2011 events patches are shaped like pieces of a jigsaw puzzle that when pieced together form a picture of a deer, the lodge’s totem. The Spring Fellowship piece is the odd man out. It is the only one with the Lodge name and number, fleur d’lis, and WWW in red instead of dark orange.
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Muscogee 221 eA2011-3?
Muscogee lodge issued three patches for their 2011 fellowships. Each one features a representation of the lodge’s totem, the red fox, in an outdoors environment. The designs are reminiscent of the lodge’s 2006 through 2008 events issues. As always, thanks to Brad Hutto for his help.
It may not be immediately noticeable in this images but the name of the council’s and lodge’s camp, Camp Barstow, is ghosted into the background of each patch
The listing data is after the break.
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Muscogee 221 S42?
Brad Hutto recently sent word of two 2012 NOAC issues from Muscogee 221. Thanks again for keeping us up to date. Both flaps are identical except for the border color. Silver mylar (SMY) is used for the trader flap. The delegate flap has a gold mylar (GMY) border. Both flaps picture a red fox, the lodge’s totem, in a coastal swamp scene.
The listing data are after the break.
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Atta Kulla Kulla 185 X29?
Atta Kulla Kulla continued a tradition with their 2012 Whippoorwill patch, used for the lodge’s 2012 LLD. Thanks to Brad Hutto, once again for this image. This is the seventh such patch the lodge has issued. I also never posted the 2011 whippoorwill patch on this blog As with the previous issues, I have chosen to list this with the lodge issues rather than as an event patch since no event is named on it.
The listing data for these patches are as follows:
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Santee 116: 2011 Fall Fellowship
Brad Hutto recently sent me images for Santee’s 2011 events patches which are now all on this site. Thanks for the updates.
Keeping up the pattern of recent years, events patches were issued for the Winter Banquet, as well as the Spring, Summer, and Fall Fellowships. I do not know yet whether a patch was issued for Camp Coker’s OA Week this past year.
The listing data for these items are after the jump.
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560 Eswau Huppeday eX2012-4?
Two new issues have recently come from Eswau Huppeday Lodge. They are their 2012 Elangomat patch and their most recent Beaver Day patch. The Elangomat patch features Big Foot. On the Beaver Day patch we can see the poor beaver could not avoid being caught under the foot of the roving Big Foot. Thanks to Jimmy Arthurs for these images.
I am told each brother can earn one of each of these patches. Extras are not sold.
The listing data for these items are after the jump:
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Atta Kulla Kulla 185: Oolenoy Chapter X3?
Oolenoy Chapter of Atta Kulla Kulla lodge has recently issued a patch in support of breast cancer research. This is the first chapter item issued for this cause as far as I know. Like most of the other patches issued so far, this one is a pink monochrome and prominently features a pink ribbon. Thanks to Greg Grimes for sending this image.
I plan to post a list of known breast cancer research patches soon. If you know of one not yet on this site, please send an image to me so it can be included.
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Recent OAImages News
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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Lodge 185: 2011 Events Patches
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