Friday Scouting Hot Finds Newsletter February 23, 2018

There are some great merit badges ending at auction on eBay this weekend. I've got a pretty good collection but I need all these hard ones. This weekend I'll see some of the biggest merit badge collectors in the country in Norfolk. One of the benefits of buying collections is the small stuff you get to keep. Wednesday I got...Read More

Tuesday Scouting Hot Finds Newsletter February 20, 2018

Tomorrow I am driving to Columbia to attend a camping committee meeting. Of course I've lined up two different people to meet with on the way down to do some patch deals. Does that mean I can count this trip as a business expense? This weekend I'm driving to the Eastern Virginia TOR in Norfolk. That will definitely count as...Read More

Sunday Scouting Hot Finds Newsletter February 18, 2018

The thing I'm looking forward to the most is being able to put my hands on stuff that I now have tucked away in a storage unit. For example when I get questions from people about pins or merit badges or other unique things they are looking for my answer is quite often, yeah I've got some of those somewhere....Read More

Friday Scouting Hot Finds Newsletter February 16, 2018

The last few days I've been going back and forth looking at a new warehouse space that would allow me to get all my inventory under one roof. So far I took my mom out there (she was visiting!) and today I'm taking my wife to see. As we all know that's the most important decision maker in the family....Read More

Tuesday Scouting Hot Finds Newsletter February 13, 2018

I saw this one posted on eBay and just shared it on Facebook today. Since I spend a lot of time on eBay you sometimes have to share so you can get a laugh. What's the matter you've never seen the rare 1960s Ballet Merit Badge! Last night our Cub Scout pack held our Blue & Gold banquet. Patrick was...Read More

Sunday Scouting Hot Finds Newsletter February 11, 2018

I enjoyed seeing the show the past few days on Facebook when my eBay partner Jason Shull landed a huge vintage collection. I think he said there were over 200 pre 1962 Order of the Arrow patches including the grandaddy of them all for my home state. He landed an Atta Kulla Kulla X1 which at one time was a...Read More

Friday Scouting Hot Finds Newsletter February 9, 2018

I got another table renter reservation this week from someone that did not come last year. That brings the total to 11 new table renters for the Charlotte TOR. Last year I had two different dealers stake out 20 tables. This time I've got a lot more collectors coming and getting 1-2 tables which I think will make for a...Read More

Sunday Scouting Hot Finds Newsletter February 4, 2018

  As I've been to recent TORs I've been keeping an eye out for ideas that I can bring back for the Charlotte TOR. The Indy TOR is really impressive and the funds generated go towards camperships. The live auction had some nice pieces that brought in some good bids. The people were also very helpful and friendly. I'll definitely...Read More

Sunday Scouting Hot Finds Newsletter January 28, 2018

The cardstock insert cards that come with each envelope are meant to be written on. Not everyone does but lots of people use the titles and lines to identify and organize their collection. However, when you need to make a change an instant frustration was do you white out the old info, flip the card over to the blank side,...Read More

Friday Scouting Hot Finds Newsletter January 26, 2018

After taking apart a flap notebook that came home from the Dallas TOR I wrote a blog post on the BHP website. This picture shows 21 decayed vinyl pages that stand over three inches tall. As we speak I've got these things in a home made press made of Scout books trying to crush them down to a manageable size...Read More

Tuesday Scouting Hot Finds Newsletter January 23, 2018

It looks like my good idea has put down roots in Texas. Some of you might remember the YouTube video where I explained the frames I built to hold Boxware frames that would be table top ready for display. Some collectors in Texas built this example of the concept. While not as polished as the ones Keith Coffey of GA...Read More

Sunday Scouting Hot Finds Newsletter January 21, 2018

TORs are great opportunities to purchase stuff to resale. Some times in person you can catch someone looking to downsize or unload some stuff they just don't want to fool with. Matt Delk loves loading up on eBay fodder as he calls it and was happy to walk out of the Dallas TOR with arm fulls of stuff he got...Read More

Tuesday Scouting Hot Finds Newsletter January 16, 2018

This is the 3rd edition of this book and it's clearly an upgrade in every way. In the past I only released the book by going to camp and handing out printed copies during a patch talk. The last time was 2010. While I do see the value in doing all that again the key is making it as easy...Read More

Sunday Scouting Hot Finds Newsletter January 14, 2018

When my family moved almost two years ago I snapped this picture of the storage unit where I stockpiled my hoard of Scout stuff accumulated from a decade of buying collections. Sadly many of these boxes have still not been opened so in 2018 this stockpile will become the genesis for the hundreds of silent auctions at the Charlotte TOR....Read More

Friday Scouting Hot Finds Newsletter January 12, 2018

Well among merit badge collectors it doesn't get much tougher than that. A Nut Culture on wide crimped cloth. Man that's one I will probably never have but watching it go on eBay is going to be fun. The vintage Ranger patch pictured next to it is another cool piece but not nearly as scarce. After the Round Table I...Read More

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