New York OA Trader

None of the regular issues from Shu Shu Gah are extremely difficult to obtain.  Tracking down a complete collection of flaps is certainly achievable.

Amongst the more modern issues, the toughest is the delegate issue from the 1992 NOAC, the S20.  Since 1990, Shu Shu Gah Lodge has issued a delegate patch to those who attended NOAC as  part of the lodge contingent or on staff.   Typically 3 delegate flaps or sets where given to each person.

In 1992,  the patches were ordered prior to the total number of delegates being finalized.  A slighter larger than anticpated contingent meant there were only 2 patches available per delegate.  My undertanding is that only 50 were ordered.  The number was reduced when the lodge advisors car was broken into and his luggage stolen on the night before he was leaving for NOAC.  This resulted in 8-10 patches being lost (as he had the delegate patches for himself and several staff members he was meeting at NOAC).

Those shorted on the flap had to trade for them from within the contingent, leaving only around 40 in existance for a 25 person contingent.

The S20 Delegate flap differs from the regular NOAC Flap (S19) only in the black arrow.  The regular S19 has a red arrow.  Care should be taken in trading for this patch, as some examples have surface where the red arrow has been colored black with a marker or dye.

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Here is a previously unlisted event issue from Nakowa Chapter of Shu Shu Gah Lodge #24. Nakowa Chapter covered the Bensonhurst area of Brooklyn and merged in 1979. Now this is not a leather issues, but vinyl or perhaps the hide of the mythical Nauga. Would you list it in the Blue Book?

Assuming it is listed, I would call it:

eX1965 - - BRN WHT - WHT Annual Dinner 50th Anniversary

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I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.

Albert Einstein
US (German-born) physicist (1879 - 1955)

A recent acquisition from Shu Shu Gah Lodge #24’s Showandasse Chapter which up until now, had not been pictured on OA Images. I’ll rectify that by sending the image to John.

I’m always interested in any Shu Shu Gah Lodge Chapter issues you may have in your trading stock.

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In science, ‘fact’ can only mean ‘confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent.’ I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms.

Stephen Jay Gould
US author, naturalist, paleontologist, & popularizer of science (1941 - 2002)

Last night Shu Shu Gah Lodge #24 held its Annual Winter Banquet at the Bridgeview Diner in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. Various awards and recognitions were handed out including the Founders Award for Ken Hood. As per tradition, a patch was issued for the event.

Blue Book Stats:
eA2008-1 BLK C WHT BLU WHT 2008 FDL; BLU 2008 Winter Banquet ShuShuGahFest

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Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more.

Mark Twain
US humorist, novelist, short story author, & wit (1835 - 1910)

In a comment on John Pannell’s blog, Dave Scocca said in a comment that fakes can be broken down into three basic categories.

(1) Patches that are privately issued without authorization, often by a member or members of an existing lodge, which appear to be from a specific lodge but which are relatively distinct in design and appearance from legitimate issues. The Occoneechee ZS4-ZS6 and ZX1 are clear instances of this type.

(2) Privately-created patches intended to resemble specific legitimate issues from current or past lodges. These are unambiguously describable as “fakes”; the classic “Bates Fakes” are a canonical example.

(3) Privately-created patches bearing the name, number, and/or totem of a long-defunct lodge from which there are no legitimate insignia. Cheap programmable embroidery machines have brought a flood of these on eBay.

The patch below, would be a variant on the first type. The Brooklyn Arrowhead describes themselves as “Order of the Arrow Scouts and Scouters that attended Camp Brooklyn, TMR from 1928 thru the 1970’s” They are essentially an alumni group of Scouters and former Scouters and while there ranks contain a number of ex-lodge chiefs and lodge advisors they, as an organization, are not part of Shu Shu Gah Lodge#24. Individually a number of the Arrowhead members do maintain there membership in the Lodge.

Over the years, they have issued several pieces of memorabilia to commemorate their reunion weekend typically held in early September each year.

While there issues are listed under the chapter section of Shu Shu Gah Lodge in the Blue Book, they are not an authorized chapter. (How can they be since there are no youth members.) The Blue books lists them as Y issues, I think Z would be more appropriate.

Since they do use the Blue Heron Totem on their patches, they could be confused with other lodge and chapter issues.

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Everything is funny as long as it is happening to Somebody Else.

Will Rogers, Illiterate Digest (1924), “Warning to Jokers: lay off the prince”
US humorist & showman (1879 - 1935)

Going for the trifecta, here is the third Shu Shu Gah Lodge #24 event issue, posted in the last three days. This one was used at the 2007 Shu Shu Gah Lodge Trade-O-Ree held in Camp Alpine on November 17, 2007.  These patches were thank you’s, to those who donated to the Lodge Auction. Proceeds from the auction, are used to finance the lodge’s contribution to the Reeve’s Capital Campaign.

Blue Book Stats:
eX2007-4 RED C M/C BLK BLK 2007 BLK T-O-R BLK and ORG Hanging Feathers, TR (undated).

I still have a small number of these available for donations to the 2008 Lodge Auction.

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If you haven’t found something strange during the day, it hasn’t been much of a day.

John A. Wheeler

Yesterday, I posted about the participant patch for the 7th Annual Shu Shu Gah #24 Lodge Indian Seminar held at Camp Alpine, last month. In addition as has been the tradition for the last few years, a staff patch was also issued for the event. The design is the same as the participant, with Staff added to the bottom of the patch.

Blue Book stats:
eA2007-3 BLK C YEL BLK WHT 2009 FDL; BLK 7th Annual Indian Seminar Camp Alpine 2007 Staff