New York OA Trader

Glenn Chase of the Patch Camp Blog had a post about Jeff Snowden the Scoutmaster of Troop 97 BSA of Fort Collins, Colorado.  Glenn maintains the excellent The Scout Patch Collector’s Base Camp a compilation of all links collecting.  A great place to start your research.

Jeff has a website, actually part of his troop website, on the Boy Scout Handbook.

The Boy Scouts of America (BSA) recognized from its founding the value of a comprehensive handbook for its members, publishing its first permanent Handbook in August, 1911. Even during the year it took to standardize the American program, the BSA hurriedly printed a temporary handbook, combining Chief Scout Ernest Thompson Seton’s Birch-Bark Roll and Baden-Powell’s Scouting for Boys. Since 1910, the BSA has published this one temporary Handbook edition (which they call the Original Edition) and eleven permanent Handbook editions.

The Handbook has changed greatly since 1910, but much of the content of the early handbooks is still recognizable in today’s edition. It is fascinating to examine the similarities and differences among the editions, what made each edition unique, and the trends that developed over the Handbook’s history.

This third edition of the Handbook’s story has been revised and updated throughout, especially to add the BSA’s new Eleventh Edition, published in December, 1998. It also adds a complete “Collector’s Listing” for each Edition, telling how to identify every printing.

Hat Tip to the Patch Camp Blog

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I had previously posted about a web site devoted to the memorabilia of the 2007 World Jamboree. Harold Daw announced an update on Patch-L.

Good day patch collectors, It has taken me many many hours but the listing of WJ 2007 badges that I started on my website is now complete. Well, at least it is as complete as I can make it for the moment. I am sure it is not 100% complete. All entries are complete with pics so have a view. It took up 6 pages on the website just to make it orderly and organized. Every countries badges (national, local, troop & event) are all together within the country to make life a bit easier. I don’t think there is any duplication but I may have missed something here. www.worldbadger.com/21WJ2007_1.asp This is the first Jamboree where it was hard to determine what was Jamboree and what was not. Countries like Egypt and Tahiti had a 100th Anniversary badge made about a year ago and then used the same badge as their contingent to the Jamboree. This is why it is on both lists. There were also a lot of badges ‘traded at the jamboree’ that had nothing to do with the jamboree. I think I have removed all these. Hope the list helps out those of you that are WJ collectors. Please note that this is not my collection as I stopped collecting WJ after 1995. I actually believe that it will be almost impossible to get a complete collection of this jamboree - there are just too many items out there - some of which I know I missed cataloging. Have fun - do let me know if there are items missed or mis-represented.

You can find the updated site here.

Prior 1973 and the realignment into Sections, groups of OA Lodges were referred to as Areas. I recently published a Checklist for Sections containing a New York OA Lodge.

Below you will find a checklist of the the Area conclaves where at least one of the lodges in each of the listed Areas was headquartered in New York during that years conclave.

I’d appreciate any feedback on missing Areas with a New York OA Lodge or if you feel a Area did not contain a New York Lodge.

Please include any details about the missing sections including which New York Lodges were in the Area in the given year.

Harold Daw posted recently to Patch-L about a site he is creating, dedicated to compiling a checklist of all of the memorabilia issued by the various countries and contingents to the 21st World Jamboree in England last month.

You can find it here

As part of a project I am working on, I have constructed a grid of the the Section conclaves where at least one of the lodges in each of the listed sections was headquartered in New York during that years conclave.

I’d appreciate any feedback on missing Sections with a New York OA Lodge or if you feel a Section did not contain a New York Lodge.

Please include any details about the missing sections including which New York Lodges were in the Section in the given year.

My plan is to also complete a similar grid for the pre-1973 New York Area 2 Conclaves.

Just wanted to give you an update from my previous post on Dave Scocca’s Northeast Region Patches website. He has completed an update and overhaul of the site. Of particular interest to me is the Northeast Region Order of the Arrow page. Dave’s updated page now shows thumbnails of the various OA patches issued by the Northeast Region on each page rather than having to click on a link to see each one.

Of course his update has revealed a few new needs for me:

• 2001 Jambo GMY border Dome
• 2004 NOAC SMY border Rectangle
• 2005 Jambo Wht border Round
• 2006 NOAC GMY border Dome

I do have a few NER OA Dupes OA R3, 1997 Jambo, 2004 NOAC Blue border, and 2006 NOAC Brn Border plus many other OA dupes to trade for the above issues.

Dave Scocca who is a regular commenter to this blog and on Patch-L has a web page which may be of interest to NY and other Region 1 and Region 2 collectors.

For those who collect issues outside of there own lodge or lodge issued memorabilia, the next step up is typically Area and Section Issues. Dave has gone one step past that with a compilation of Order of the Arrow Issues from the Northeast Region. His checklist can be found on his Northeast Region OA Patches.

While it hasn’t been updated to reflect more recent issues (Hint, Hint!), it provides the only checklist I’m aware of which covers Northeast Region Order of the Arrow Patches.

You can also find the link in the right sidebar under Patch Collecting Resources.

His various other checklists can be found by starting from here.