It's often true that for something to become a trend among teens that the "cool kids" must be doing it. At least that was my experience back in the 1980s. So in my lodge right now (somehow) it's cool to have a patch briefcase. At Fellowship this weekend I took three that I got in recent collections and gifted them...Read More
This morning I have a brand new unboxing going out that features a nice pre-WWII Eagle Scout collection. What I like about this one is that the family has it completely intact with the cards, sash etc. It's also nice because unlike many collections I get this gentlemen got reengaged later as an adult and worked so hard his council...Read More
Sometimes I get a collection that is so complete that it has to become a permanent display. This collection that belonged to a late 1930s Eagle Scout is awesome because it's so intact. Imagine keeping your membership cards from 90 years ago!? The merit badge sash has some really interesting patches including many of the farming badges that are now...Read More
I'm heading to Camp Barstow this weekend to attend the Muscogee Lodge Fall Fellowship. I'm looking forward to seeing old friends. We have quite a bit of clean up work to do at camp with downed limbs and some trees. But luckily our VP of Properties Bill Eiselle has kept us way ahead of the curve on taking down compromised...Read More
Finally every box has been opened and every loose item has a home in the warehouse. I spent almost all of my Saturday out there tackling the project because I was so close to the finish line. I still need to do the clean up and putting everything away but like I told my wife last night I'm 99.9%...Read More
Thanks to some of you that reached out to ask about my daughter who attends a small college near Asheville NC. Monday and Tuesday we hosted 4 of her friends that had come down off the mountain. Then dad got smart and booked them three nights at Edisto Beach State Park and they have been enjoying a camping trip south...Read More
To kick off Q4 in style I'm running one of the largest sales ever for OA flaps and issues in my eBay Store. This week you can save on over 18,000 issues. As always use the shopping cart feature and when you checkout with 5 or more items you can also qualify for free shipping! For some weeks I've talked about...Read More
Yesterday on a random Saturday in the fall we had 5 people working at the warehouse! Some of that was because Friday was a scratch day with Charlotte getting the impact of the hurricane through the morning. But still my son needed to get his monthly work hours in (gotta pay for that cell phone) and we needed to get...Read More
For two years I had these three boxes of Scouting memorabilia sitting on a shelf in my warehouse. The boxes had been there so long I seemed to remember I needed to film an unboxing but had honestly forgot what was so special about the collection. In real time as you watch this video you will see the moment when...Read More
I really can't make this up! For two years on the bottom shelf of a room in my warehouse sat three boxes from a collection I purchased. I knew that there was some good stuff there and it deserved the effort to film and publish an unboxing video. But I honestly forgot the unicorn item in among the 55 pounds...Read More
I thought I'd share a picture from the warehouse that I took last week after cataloging all the unlisted inventory that is ready to be photographed. I'm sure in every business you have been in there are a string of processes for how things are done. So in my warehouse we have implemented this card system whereby each card corresponds...Read More
This weekend I bit off more than I could chew. Leaving Charlotte at 6 AM I headed to central GA to view and purchase a collection. That all went well. But my next stop took me into the heart of an Atlanta suburb. I could see the traffic picking up. But still that 2nd stop was successful and I...Read More
Yesterday I published a new unboxing video that includes items from a Baltimore collection. But one of the jewels found in the box was over a dozen teens era merit badges in great condition. The pillow case full of patches was also fun to go through! I am settling into a routine of having one unboxing each week....Read More
I can't tell you how a collector in Maryland ended up a batch of pristine mint 100 year old merit badges but in this unboxing you will get to see them. Although he was doing his Scouting in the Baltimore area there is stuff from all over that ended up in this Boy Scout collection. I worked with the family...Read More
Over the course of weeks in a resellers Book Club (shout out Libby!) I wrote the Mission for my 20+ year old business that was sparked by my boyhood passion for collecting Scouting memorabilia. Our mission is to preserve Scouting history and memories by recycling memorabilia back into the movement and embracing new Scout patch collectors. We aim to grow...Read More