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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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Nayawin Rar 296 eX2009-3?
Wesley Drennan sent news and images of several new items from Nayawin Rar lodge. Among them were the patches for this lodge’s 2009 Spring and Fall fellowships.
Both patches share a similar design scheme. A traditional representation of the lodge totem is in the middle of a triangular patch, surrounded by the names of the lodge’s three chapters. The Spring Fellowship patch is pointed upwards. The Fall Fellowship patch points downwards.The lodge name does not appear on either patch. Unless I’m missing it, there is neither a fleur d’lis or “BSA” on these patches.
The listing data for these are as follows:
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Nayawin Rar 296 S49?
It has been reported to me that Nayawin Rar will issue four flaps for this year’s NOAC. Yes, they will issue. The lodge ordered and received their two NOAC flaps. One had an error on it. The lodge took this as an opportunity to correct the error, make some minor design changes and reorder. The revised patches were issued in time for NOAC. The rumors are that the original patches will be issued this Fall. When I know something more concrete, I will report it here. Once again thanks to Greg Grimes for these images.
The lodge continued the tradition dating back to its 1996 NOAC flap (S18) of using a predominately black and white color scheme for its NOAC issues. The brothers of this small lodge have shown us that an abundance of colors, special threads, flashing lights or other gimmicks are not required to produced a well designed and attractive patch.
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Ani Difranco
2009 Conclave Campsite Host Patch
Rick Pridgen has sent word and an image of yet another patch related to last April’s 2009 SR-7B conclave, aka the Cardinal Conclave. Rick reports that this patch was issued by Nayawin Rar lodge for those who worked as campsite hosts. Thanks, Rick. I have since been hit with a small deluge of emails from other collectors about whether or not this patch was an authorized issue of Nayawin Rar lodge.
The patch was produced after the conclave for those Scouts and Scouters who assisted with campsite host duties. Some of these were not arrowmen. Nayawin Rar is a very small lodge and I am told they enlisted the aid of non-Arrowmen to help with their service lodge duties.
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"Yes, we have to divide up our time like that, between our politics and our equations. But to me our equations are far more important, for politics are only a matter of present concern. A mathematical equation stands forever."
Albert Einstein
Nayawin Rar 296 C1?
Nayawin Rar lodge was selling an interesting, if a bit “retro”, jacket patch at last weekend’s SR-7B conclave It is a 7″ round felt patch. The central portion of the design is chenille. The lodge name on the outer ring of the patch is embroidered on the felt.
Since the central portion of this patch is chenille, this item will be listed on this site as “C1?” rather than “J4?” The listing data for this issue are as follows:
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Calvin Coolidge
Nayawin Rar 296 S48?
Nayawin Rar hosted the 2009 SR-7B Conclave this past weekend at Camp Tuscarora. Following the example of six years ago, the lodge issued three flaps. In a welcome change from conclaves in the recent past, two of these were readily available in the trading post and easy to acquire.
The third flap was for conclave staff (pictured), had a significant service requirement, and was distributed one per person with no extras available for sale. This was arguably* the most difficult lodge issue for the conclave to acquire. one of the conclave staff flaps was sold in the conclave’s patch auction on Saturday evening. The flap was issued with an accompanying certificate of authenticity.
These are not yet on the main part of this site. The listing data for these issues are as follows:
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Nayawin Rar 296 N5?
Brett Warner recently sent me an image of a new neckerchief recently issued by Nayawin Rar lodge. He reports the lodge ordered 200 of the neckerchiefs. Given the small size of this lodge, I would not expect them to be reordered any time in the near future.
The neckerchief design is directly embroidered onto a light blue neckerchief with red piping as a border. The central design is the traditional representation of the lodge’s totem that has appeared on early rounds and many flaps from this lodge.
Brett also reports that there are several variations in these neckerchiefs. On some the central design of more round or oval than others. Also the placement of the word “Lodge” varies somewhat, sometimes shifted down enough so that it touches the blue outer border of the central design. We consider these all too insignificant to be considered anything other than “MVE” (minor variations exist).
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Ambrose Bierce
Nayawin Rar 296 S44?
Nayawin Rar lodge has issued a new standard flap. Thanks to Rick Pridgen for supplying the image of this piece.
The lodge returns to a more traditional representation of their totem, the night hawk, on this flap. It has a red border, and a red fleur d’lis (fdl) on each side of the lodge name and is rendered in CD style embroidery. This combination of border and fleur d’lis colors has not been used previously by the lodge making this flap easy to identify.
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Edmund Burke
Nayawin Rar had a surfer theme for the SR-7B conclave. Their flap for this conclave, depicting the night hawk as a “surfer dude”. This lodge usually uses a traditional or realistic depiction the nighthawk on its flap. This flap breaks with that practice.
It has been reported to me that the lodge issued 400 of these flaps, instead of the 200 issued in recent past years.
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"My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man."
John F. Kennedy
This is the second of two recent issues from Nayawin Rar lodge sent to me by Greg Grimes. This fellowship is an adaptation of the black and white motif used on several recent flaps from this lodge. They are proof that you can have a nice looking patch without using lots of colors.
Fall Fellowship should have been sometime ago, but I only just heard word of this patch just now. It seems my usual sources of information have let me down on these two latest patches. 
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Donald H. Rumsfeld
Greg Grimes sent me word a couple of days ago of two new issues from Nayawin Rar lodge. The first of these was a lodge flap issued for the lodge achieving Quality Lodge status in 2006.
Some might think it odd that that lodge would issue a flap in late 2007 to honor their 2006 quality lodge status. When asked about this, I jokingly responded that the ability to make a quick decision is not a requirement to be a quality lodge.
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Robert Heinlein
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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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Lodge 296: 2009 Fellowship Patches
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