What’s with all the 2011 World Scout Jamboree border colors?

  This summer I had the pleasure of attending the World Scout Jamboree in Sweden. Each person received two Jamboree badges that had a light grey border. Within a week after the close of the Jamboree, a special orange border "King's badge" showed up on eBay.       It was sold on 8/14/11 by weezethree of Asheville, NC for...Read More

Should I Tell Him or Will You?

Price guides are a dangerous thing in the hands of a novice. Take for example this eBay listing below. It seems like this guy got a hold of a collection of old Boy Scout paper including mostly Boy's Life mags and a few handbooks. Here is a line from his listing: "Valued at over $7600.00, based on the 2001 Standard...Read More

Top 5 Boy Scout Auctions – Some You’ve Never Seen

I don't think many of my Hot Finds readers will have missed the $15k jacket that sold on eBay last week. However, how many of you saw the three 1933 World Jamboree items that were also big sellers? I surely didn't which is saying a lot considering I write a 3/week hobby newsletter focusing on live auctions. I think when...Read More

BSA Experts Riddle Me This

  Ok a question for those who know more about advancement than me. I knew a handicapped Scout at my home camp that earned the advancement that is seen in the listing below but I remember him having the 1st Class emblem in the middle. So is this listing wrong or did the Scout change out the center patch from...Read More

Making a Fortune on Fake Eagle Scout Rings

  I know if you are a regular watcher on eBay then you've seen eBay seller ajs-shop out of Germany selling "original" Scouting rings. Its pretty clear to everyone that these are knock offs made by this company (or outsourced) and are a total rip off on the BSA brand. I'm pretty sure they even make an OA Vigil ring...Read More

Would You Recognize a $1k+ Armband If You Saw It?

I have been doing the Hot Finds for a couple of years now and I can honestly say if I saw this item in a mixed lot I would never have been clued in that it was from the '47 WJ or that it was worth north of a grand. Luckily this seller was from the UK and he definitely...Read More

Boy Scout Medals of Honor

I think that all of us who have been through the Scouting program as boys or later as leaders have a respect for these great award medals that sold recently on eBay. The Bronze Wolf medal is not a BSA item but shows you that when it comes to these ribbons and medals that the feeling is pretty universal. One...Read More

I Love Felt Camp Patches

Man if I came across a set of felt camp patches from my home camp for sale on eBay I'd have to tap into the equity line credit to pay for them. Luckily the winner of this big lot of nice felt camp patches from the midwest didn't have to do that. Still after 18 bids he did pay a...Read More

Don’t Ya Just Hate When This Happens

Here is a sob story for you from one eBay user to another. So this week I've got some great items up and running from Skyuka Lodge 270. These dozen or so items are from the 1970s and several are really tough to get. One of the best is a rare fellowship patch from 1976. The bicentennial Spring Fellowship patch...Read More

I Am Not A Fan

eBay seller discovery626 always seems to have good stuff on eBay. He uses a strategy in selling that drives me nuts though as the editor of the Scouting Hot Finds. His titles have nothing to do with the actual item he is listing. Instead he just stuffs the 80 characters with key words that he knows eBay buyers are going...Read More

Wonderful Piece of Historical Scout Art

I wrote about this 14 inch wide World War I 3rd Liberty Loan award in my Hot Finds newsletter. When I was writing about it the bidding was at $200 and it had not reached the reserve yet. Well I don't know if mentioning it in the Hot Finds was the trick but now the listing is at $1k with...Read More

What Was This Person Thinking?

So this is just a weird auction. When I saw it on eBay my first thought was why is this old 1930's shirt sitting at $24.99 with just one bid. Surely, it hasn't flown that low under the radar. But then when I clicked over and took a closer look I see why the bidding hasn't materialized. Rather than spoiling...Read More

OA Flap & Activity Patches Climbing the Ladder

The winning bidder on the Lodge 135 activity patch used a strategy that I'll call climbing the ladder. He started bidding on the auction during the last hour and came up against a bid that was several hundred dollars stronger then he expected. So in bids of $20 and $50 increments he kept climbing the ladder to see where he...Read More

Scout Jamboree Memorabilia

I posted a while back that an orange border 2011 WJ patch sold for over $600 which at the time was way more than any 2010 National Jamboree patch ever went for at auction. Well how did I miss this yellow badge (and several identical copies of it) that sold for way more than $600? The rest of this blog...Read More

Vintage Scouting Memorabilia For Sale – Any Buyers?

I know that most collectors that love their memorabilia with little fdls on them dont' get excited when they see odd-ball items like a Boy Scout lamp. However, you would be wrong to think that those items are not both rare and valuable. Take for example the signed autograph of BSA founding father Daniel Beard. Not all of us are...Read More

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