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February 8th, 2012
What's Up With Blue Book?
Many of us have been wondering for years what will happen with Blue Book. A new version has not been published since 2006. At 1pm today Jason Spangler will broadcast part one of an interview with Roy More where they discuss the future of Blue Book.
Scouting Hot Finds Radio: Blue Book 2.0 Update with Roy More.
You can listen live at that link. You can also find the podcast there afterwards, or listen through iTunes.
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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 6th, 2012
A Guide to Identifying Chinese Fakes on eBay
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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December 23rd, 2011
Imitation is the Sincerest Form of Flattery (III)
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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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December 22nd, 2011
One of These Things Is Not Like the Other...
"One of these things is not like the others, One of these things just doesn't belong, Can you tell which thing is not like the others. By the time I finish my song?"
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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Mystery White Buffalo Patch
Greg Grimes recently sent me this image of a patch that we cannot identify. He says rumor has it it may have been a Yamni Wakpa chapter piece, Occoneechee lodge 104, from the 60′s – 70′s era. A group of us here in North Carolina are skeptical.
Occoneechee lodge has been fortunate in recent decades to have many active patch collectors who have well documented what the lodge has issued and produced. Even though chapter patches tend to be less well documented, it seems unlikely something possibly as recent as the 1970s would have been missed by the local collectors. Also, the white buffalo has been used by several other lodges. In fact this looked familiar to us but we could not place it.
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"What kind of scale compares the weight of two beauties, the gravity of duties, or the ground speed of joy? Tell me, what kind of gage can quantify elation? What kind of equation could I possibly employ?"
Ani Difranco
Mystery Unami Flap
I was recently sent this image of an odd Unami flap. The person who sent it, whose name I have lost already, didn’t know what it was. I cannot find any listing on the Unami page that matches this flap. I know there are several regular readers here who are knowledgeable about Unami’s issues.
Does anyone know anything about this item?
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"There is no national science just as there is no national multiplication table; what is national is no longer science."
Anton Chekov
1994 Fall Fellowship
This patch, pictured, was in a group of patches I’m trying to identify for someone. Clearly, at least to me, it’s an OA lodge issue. It would also appear to be part of a set that forms a unified design of some sort, but I don’t have any of the other pieces.
Does anyone know what lodge it’s from? If so, please comment.
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"Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word."
Charles De Gaulle
I was recently sent an image of a rather odd looking patch. This patch is on the right sleeve in place of a patrol medallion on a 1964 National Jamboree patrol leaders shirt. Ità ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢s the size of a patrol medallion.
I’m probably imagining things again, but if one looks carefully, what appears to be three Ws can be seen arranged in the form of a triskelion.
From its placement we can guess this is a custom made patrol patch. Beyond that, I have no idea what this is supposed to be. Can anyone out there shed some light on this?
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"Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business."
Calvin Coolidge
I have been doing some patch identification for a friend of mine and ran across a flap from Klahican lodge that I could not identify. I have now shown the image to several North Carolina collectors but don’t yet have a conclusive answer about what this is. See the image at the top of this post. Click on it to see a much larger version of the same image. What do you think?
The flap has computer style embroidery with a dull silver mylar border and what I’ll call a “forest green” background.
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"Keep cool and you command everybody. "
Louis de Saint-Just
Irv Block sent me an image of this flap he acquired in trade some time back. He was expecting an S1 but got this flap instead. I’ve been slow to do anything with it because I don’t know where to place this on my site.
Blue Book describes the S1 from this lodge as measuring 127x65mm. This flap is significantly squatter at only 120x63mm. None of the other issues’ descriptions fit this flap.
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"Don't be a fool and die for your country. Let the other sonofabitch die for his."
George S. Patton
For those who don’t already know, I maintain a small “Whatzit” page on this site at http://www.oaimages.com/whatzit.shtml.
Rich Nicoloff recently wrote me about one of the items that was there. According to him the patch pictured here, and formerly on the whatzit page, is a Royal Rangers patch. Can anyone else also confirm this?
If you have a patch that you what included on this site’s whatzit page, please email it to me at jpannell@oaimages.com
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"Technical skill is mastery of complexity while creativity is mastery of simplicity."
Catastrophe Theory, 1977.
E Christopher Zeeman
Kenneth Mills recently sent me this image of a bullion purportedly from Ni-Sanak-Tani 381. He was puzzled as it neither matched the description for this lodge’s B1 nor was on my site. I looked at my own collection and found it there too.
I guess I just never paid too much attention to it, 381 not being a difficult lodge to collect. My copy of this mystery piece has been in my collection for several years now.
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"If you see ten troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they reach you."
Calvin Coolidge
This image of two unusual pieces was recently sent to me. The emailer told me these were in a collection of various other items and had reason to believe that at least the neckerchief might be from Shu-Shu-Gah lodge.
I sent this to Bill Mulrenin, Blue Book editor for New York. He was confident that these pieces did not originate with Shu-Shu-Gah lodge or any of its chapters. Neither of us have a clue what these items are.
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"An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last."
Sir Winston Churchill
Marty Tschetter sent this image to me along with this message:
“I have a neckerchief that is in Croatan Lodge’s collection. It came from a professional Scouter active in North Carolina from the 1930s-1950s, though obviously we are unsure the origin.”
Can anyone help him?
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"Where I am, I don't know, I'll never know, in the silence you don't know, you must go on, I can't go on, I'll go on."
Samuel Beckett
Recent OAImages News
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.
Read the Full Post
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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March 31st, 2011
Comment Spam
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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February 11th, 2011
Change in Comments Policy
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.
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