Sunday Scouting Hot Finds Newsletter June 29, 2025

Today I wanted to share another video from the catalog. Back about 10 years ago I was doing a talking heads show with Brad England. Sometimes this format went on the road and I interviewed collectors at TORs. At one show I caught up with John Ortt of VA and he gave an excellent talk on early OA pins. It's...Read More

Friday Scouting Hot Finds Newsletter June 27, 2025

Well I've never tried this before but I have a First Flap in pristine mint condition that I am making available to the readers. The Shin-Go-Beek 334 F1 is a highly rated First Flap that I just got it in a collection. I'm asking $1800 OBO on this one. If you are a buyer send me an email reply and we can...Read More

Tuesday Scouting Hot Finds Newsletter June 24, 2025

As the summer time can put many of you on the road today I want to shout out what I hope is a destination for patch collectors. If you are traveling through the Queen City through the air or via I77 or I85 this summer consider stopping at the Sleepy Poet Antique Mall. It's always rated as one of the...Read More

Sunday Scouting Hot Finds Newsletter June 22, 2025

People are still finding raw collections all the time in the wild. I got an email yesterday from a FB friend. He came across a small Region V cache that included some really killer OA including a totem pin. Nice! I gave him some information and suggested a few people he could reach out to.   I got a call...Read More

Friday Scouting Hot Finds Newsletter June 20, 2025

I am down in the sea islands of South Carolina this weekend getting away with the family. My wife decided to upgrade her tech and has handed down to me a reMarkable. This is a b&w electronic tablet that is what a paper notepad would be if it married an iPad. I am still trying to figure it out but...Read More

Tuesday Scouting Hot Finds Newsletter June 17, 2025

I am getting today's issue out a bit later in the day than I normally due. I had a few errands today that pushed things back so I apologize if any of my hand picked listings already had the gavel fall.   Yesterday I had a visitor in the warehouse from Ohio that brought me a large collection from an...Read More

Sunday Scouting Hot Finds Newsletter June 15, 2025

Back about 10 years ago I was doing a show with Brad England we called Thread Heads. I also published some episodes that were Trade-O-Ree interviews. This was one of my favorites as I sat down with the Pin Man Doug Chambers. We talked about his passion for this corner of our hobby in the interview. I have since kept...Read More

Friday Scouting Hot Finds Newsletter June 13, 2025

Today I'm sharing another episode from the archive. I recorded this interview early on in the podcast at the end of 2011 with John Pannell. In the episode he shares the story of how he took OAimages from a website with a few hundred images to one that got 40,000 hits per day. Even with it's ups and downs over the...Read More

Tuesday Scouting Hot Finds Newsletter June 10, 2025

This month I have been selling off a lot of Georgia OA pieces. It all came from the a collection that I picked up about 4 months ago. At the time I filmed an video for my Patreon members sharing some of the sorting and processing. I thought since I'm in the heat of selling some of the stuff I"d...Read More

Sunday Scouting Hot Finds Newsletter June 8, 2025

Yesterday I put in snipes on several of the Air Explorer items in the Noble Spirit auctions. I put my bids in at 100% of the historical best sold comp and in one case even higher. In all cases I was totally blown out of the water. On a Saturday afternoon! It's great to see there is such interest in the...Read More

Friday Scouting Hot Finds Newsletter June 6, 2025

As I am finishing packing the van to head to the camp staff reunion this weekend I want to share another episode of the podcast. In my packing I found historical paper and pictures that I have not taken off the shelf since moving into this warehouse almost 5 years ago. Which means nobody in the outside world has seen them...Read More

Tuesday Scouting Hot Finds Newsletter June 3, 2025

In a recent Hot Finds I mentioned the topic of a traveling display along with the idea of council historical societies. One of the responses to that email was hearing from Jeff Morley. Jeff put his experience working with the museums set up at NOACs to create a helpful YouTube video shared in the digital cracker barrel. I watched the video...Read More

Sunday Scouting Hot Finds Newsletter June 1, 2025

Tonight I hope to participate in a Scouting Alumni Communities Webinar led by Bradley Taylor and Tim Brown. I am a little late to the game on these BSA webinars although when I was a camp director I did plenty. Back in the day I was in APO but I don't think I am a member of NESA. I want...Read More

Friday Scouting Hot Finds Newsletter May 30, 2025

In revisiting the episodes of my podcast I could not leave out this interview with Nick Loesch who many of you remember from eBay and TORs. Nick was one of those dealers at TORs that traveled for miles around and always had a ton of stuff. On eBay he was also epic and had one of the larger stores in the Boy...Read More

Tuesday Scouting Hot Finds Newsletter May 27, 2025

I have been revisiting some of my old content in the Hot Finds and today I've got one from the archives to share. This was the VERY first unboxing video I published over 11 years ago. In total I now have 90 of these videos in a playlist on YouTube. I am sure that when I filmed this one I had...Read More

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