Archive January, 2023

Scouting Hot Finds Live #11: How To Identify and Sort Your Boy Scout Rank Patches

Have you ever looked at your Boy Scout collection and struggled to figure out what the small differences among common rank and position patches mean? In this episode of the show we go into a deep dive on how to identify and sort your BSA rank patches using the leading reference books in the hobby. It's a fun rabbit hold...Read More

Scouting Hot Finds Live #10: Building A Traveling Scout Museum

This episode is packed with knowledge and an awesome unboxing. Ryan Losonsky returns for the final installment in my interview with him. This time we are talking about nuts and bolts....literally! Ryan has created a 90+ panel traveling Scout museum and in this video we are going to talk shop. The big unboxing for this week is a truly live...Read More

Scouting Hot Finds Live #9: 1929 World Jamboree Collection Unboxing

While I was staffing Winter Camp I was contacted by a woman in Texas named Sallye who wanted to know if i was interested in her father's Scouting memorabilia. He was born in 1912 and attended the 1929 World Scout Jamboree in London. Of course was my answer! I just picked up her package from the box yesterday and so...Read More

Friday Scouting Hot Finds Newsletter January 6, 2023

  This week I got back in the rhythm of publishing a weekly episode of Scouting Hot Finds Live. This week it was an unboxing of a small collection from a Scout who attended the 1929 World Jamboree. This guy grew up in the Norwela Council of Louisiana and was one of four boys from the council to attend that...Read More

Boy Scout Collection Unboxing St. Louis Eagle Scout 1964 National Scout Jamboree

I bought this collection from a gentleman who at age 72 realized that nobody in his family was really interested in his old Scouting memorabilia.  Luckily we connected and I was able to help him get these pieces recycled back into the hands of a collector.  He got his Eagle in 1963 in a troop in University City which is...Read More

  

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    Charlotte Trade-O-Ree

    I Buy/Sell Memorabilia

    I Buy/Sell Boy Scout Memorabilia

    I have been an active Boy Scout collector for more than twenty-five years. I’ve been buying and selling patches on eBay since 1998. If you have a Boy Scout memorabilia collection you are interested in parting with please contact me…
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    About The Santeeswapper

    Camp Director, Eagle Scout, Order of the Arrow Vigil Honor Member and past Chief, lifelong Scouter and patch collector.

    Jason Spangler
    14039 Hwy 74 East
    Suite A6, #116
    Indian Trail, NC 28079
    (910) 671-4919 [text or call – leave a message]
    email to santeeswapper@yahoo.com
    Main website santeeswapper.com

    I started collecting Boy Scout memorabilia when I was inducted into Santee Lodge 116, Order of the Arrow at Camp Coker in the summer of 1986. All the guys of ISWA chapter in Elk campsite seemed to be trading and since my dad sent me to camp with a small bag of patches, I jumped in and never looked back....

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