Sunday Scouting Hot Finds Newsletter March 27, 2016

Saturday my project was stripping my office and packing away 5 years worth of accumulation. I need to take down the shelving so it doesn't get sold with the house and we hope to stick a sign in the yard at the end of the week. The good news was I found a $1,000 OA flap while packing that I...Read More

Friday Scouting Hot Finds Newsletter August 26, 2016

So here is the story on the 12 Inch Eagle Scout Medal. I bought a collection from a Scouter who was active in Augusta, GA and the Charleston, SC area. His dad had been a professional Scouter. In one of the boxes there was this intricately made giant Eagle Medal. When I posted it to the Scout Patch Collectors as...Read More

Friday Scouting Hot Finds Newsletter March 25, 2016

I was contacted by a troop leader a few weeks ago that had an interesting dilemma. His troop was given a collection of over 100 patches from an older member of the church. So when he started looking at the items and did some homework he discovered that this was a treasure trove of 1950's era OA patches! The collection...Read More

Tuesday Scouting Hot Finds Newsletter March 22, 2016

March has been an exceptionally good month at my antique mall booths. I don't know if its just the time of year when snow birds start heading north or what. My store located in Florence, SC at Palmetto Peddlers has seen more sales this month than in the first 2 months of the year combined. The Lumberton, NC store is...Read More

Sunday Scouting Hot Finds Newsletter March 20, 2016

There was some actual patch trading going down in the dining hall at Camp Coker Saturday night. It was an official event on the schedule and we probably had 15-20 people hanging around taking part. Phil Bethune had his collection on display and we had Wes Drennan visiting to get in on the action. I helped a few people fill...Read More

Friday Scouting Hot Finds Newsletter March 18, 2016

I don't usually lead off the newsletter mentioning a sale in my eBay store but this one is pretty unique. I'm a bit stingy on my OA and so they rarely go on sale. I've looked back and I don't think I've ever gone this deep. For the rest of the weekend you can get 30% off on over 2,000...Read More

Tuesday Scouting Hot Finds Newsletter March 15, 2016

Further down in today's newsletter you will find my latest unboxing video. This one is a whopper featuring me spilling open 28 pounds of cloth that was all stuffed into one very large priority mail box. There are about 2,000 patches in that box including OA, shoulder patches and Jamboree. I'm going to help a Troop market the sale of...Read More

Sunday Scouting Hot Finds Newsletter March 13, 2016

The CFCHA benefited greatly from having steady leadership and good relationships that allowed the association to have a formal partnership with the Council Executive Board. When a new training center was being constructed at camp a few years back they secured some terrific display areas and office space to run the show. This weekend they hosted a lodge chief reunion...Read More

Friday Scouting Hot Finds Newsletter March 11, 2016

This weekend I'm taking the Girl Scouts on a day trip to Camp Graham near Henderson, NC. We are doing an activity focused around teaching them an outdoor skill. This one just happens to be cooking! Our council has an emphasis this year on trying to teach girls more of the important camping skills and we are ready to go....Read More

Tuesday Scouting Hot Finds Newsletter March 8, 2016

It might end before some of you can click on it but I just love the Kit Karson Kit below in the box. I have one in my collection but not with the box. This one has been used and the box is not in the greatest of shape but it is still over $200 and going. The OA Activity...Read More

Sunday Scouting Hot Finds Newsletter March 6, 2016

There are some golden oldies in this box. Any time this block features multiple items from that are preWWII that is always a good sign. So far 2016 is a quiet year for issuing new OA patches. I have heard rumor that some lodges are going to put out patches for the programs being offered this summer at the Summit....Read More

Sunday Scouting Hot Finds Newsletter December 4, 2016

Thursday I'm putting up a display at my district banquet with Scouting memorabilia to help promote the Charlotte TOR. The question now is what to put up? I've got a pretty good local lodge collection but outside of OA what appeals to your typical Scouter? Would this be a good year to mount a Jamboree display with paper and patches...Read More

Friday Scouting Hot Finds Newsletter March 4, 2016

I think blind trades are helpful because many of us are geographically in a bubble when it comes to trading. In a typical year for example I'm only going to go to a few Scouting events and or TORs in maybe a 2-3 state region. So if I have duplicate patches from my OA lodge chances are people in my...Read More

Tuesday Scouting Hot Finds Newsletter March 1, 2016

Recently I asked for advice on how to make displays useful when showing Scouts. Tracy Mesler responded back with sage advice. "Take a lead from the NOAC museums the last two times. Hold text down to short-speak. Headlines and brief captions. To expedite the lines at NOAC, Bill rewrote every text block holding virtually everything to under 140 words. Many...Read More

Sunday Scouting Hot Finds Newsletter February 28, 2016

For a long time now I've known this day was coming and I was not as prepared as I should have been. I have been putting together my classic Boy Scout stuff in a portfolio specifically so I could display it on a table top and show it to a Scout at an event (or in this case an interview)....Read More

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