Friday Scouting Hot Finds Newsletter June 16, 2017

Today I'm shipping out the patches that came in for the blind trade I organized for camp patches. I had nine collectors take part which is way down from what I got for OA activities but I know that camp patches might be viewed as just not quite worth it when you consider the trouble. I don't have my next...Read More

Tuesday Scouting Hot Finds Newsletter June 13, 2017

I hit the jackpot and was put with a den where my "assistant" was a mom who was on her third son going through the program so she was a pro. My den chief was a sister from my home pack and she did a great job. Then to top it off I got a lead on a very strong...Read More

Sunday Scouting Hot Finds Newsletter June 11, 2017

Yesterday confirmed my faith in using Facebook to make deals in this hobby. Pictured here is a gold Caldwell pin that Rob Kutz posted for sale on a uniform. It looks like he had it posted for less than an hour when he sold it for big bucks. I finally spent some time on the Scout Patch Collectors FB Group...Read More

Friday Scouting Hot Finds Newsletter June 9, 2017

There are about a 1/2 dozen troops going from North Carolina and we are getting together and making a patch and t-shirt for the contingent. The way the Girl Scouts work there are only 3 councils in the state. As you can imagine that makes some of them huge. The tradition is to make hand made swaps for trading at...Read More

Tuesday Scouting Hot Finds Newsletter June 6, 2017

Coming back fresh in 2016 with the podcast my plan was to just live record the shows and not even edit them. Just record it live and let it run. While I did do that a couple of times it was not always convenient to go live at a reliable time of the day. That and I couldn't help but...Read More

Sunday Scouting Hot Finds Newsletter June 4, 2017

Now that the National OA Committee lifted the ban on the O-B-V sets my lodge is joining many in bringing that series back. Saturday afternoon the lodge approved a by-laws change to start up a restricted set that will probably be issued at the Fall Fellowship. I had a hand in designing the set so I'm pretty stocked about it....Read More

Friday Scouting Hot Finds Newsletter June 2, 2017

I've decided to extend the deadline for my Camp Patch blind trade out another week to June 9th. So far I've received less than 10 packages to take part and ideally I'd like to get several more to make the sorting easier. So how does somebody from a Central American country end up with an old PA merit badge sash?...Read More

Tuesday Scouting Hot Finds Newsletter May 30, 2017

With the glacial pace at which the update to the Blue Book has taken I think many local lodge historians have jumped into to create their own local patch guides. Especially with the excitement around the recent OA Centennial I'd say in my area about 1/2 of the lodges now have a pretty formal patch guide. Not all of them...Read More

Sunday Scouting Hot Finds Newsletter May 28, 2017

From the collection I purchased Friday the coolest thing was a 1975 lodge NOAC contingent t-shirt. I can't imagine many of those have survived the 40+ years since the event. It will go up on eBay tonight but who knows if people from Skyuka Lodge 270 will appreciate it like I do. Sometimes what I love most about getting a...Read More

Friday Scouting Hot Finds Newsletter May 26, 2017

As most of the readers know I've had a foot in both Scouting worlds as a parent and leader. For four years I served as a Girl Scout troop leader working with Brownie - Junior and Cadette aged girls with my daughters troops. One of the things I kinda bragged about (in this newsletter) was that I got the girls...Read More

Tuesday Scouting Hot Finds Newsletter May 23, 2017

Monday I spent the better part of the day working in my antique mall booth. Then the darndest thing happened. Two teenage girls spent about an hour in my booth giggling and going through the shirts and dollar patches. Eventually both picked out vintage green shirts and a handful of patches and I asked them what they planned to do?...Read More

Sunday Scouting Hot Finds Newsletter May 21, 2017

It's not very often that as an eBay seller you come across things that never recorded a sale all those years that John Pannell was tracking things on his OA images website. Not only did I hit upon some of that with a collection I bought this week but I also picked up a chapter activity patch that was never...Read More

Friday Scouting Hot Finds Newsletter May 19, 2017

What was interesting about this collection is that it was clearly picked by somebody prior to me getting a call from the family. Even some of the children were surprised at what was left. North Carolina is a small state when it comes to Boy Scout patches so I probably know the collector who got into it and cleaned out...Read More

Tuesday Scouting Hot Finds Newsletter May 16, 2017

Can you keep a secret? The collection included over 300 mugs. That's grounds for divorce so I got smart and had the guy meet me in the parking lot of my storage unit in Charlotte. After the deal was done the books, coffee mugs and Boy's Life magazines went into the storage unit (hopefully never to be seen by my...Read More

Sunday Scouting Hot Finds Newsletter May 14, 2017

Have you ever heard the phrase will work for patches? I have a rising freshman college student that wants a bunch of cloth from me for his collection but is low on cash. We are going to talk in a couple of weeks about him helping me with eBay listing remotely to see if we can really see if it's...Read More

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