{"id":854,"date":"2007-05-28T13:59:01","date_gmt":"2007-05-28T17:59:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nyoatrader.com\/blog\/?p=854"},"modified":"2007-05-28T13:59:59","modified_gmt":"2007-05-28T17:59:59","slug":"what-made-u-collect-a-specific-lodge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nyoatrader.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/28\/what-made-u-collect-a-specific-lodge\/","title":{"rendered":"What Made “U” Collect A Specific Lodge?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Matt Kirkland asks What Made “U” Collect A Specific Lodge<\/a>? on his blog The BlackEagleTrader<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Patch collecting changes or evolves as interests in the field change from person to person. Ever sit back and thank how it all begin…or even how it will all end?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

How would I answer this question.\u00c2\u00a0 Well I guess I started more as an accumulator than a collector.\u00c2\u00a0 I started collecting OA as many do as a one for one trader at the West Point Camporee and the 1973 Jamboree.\u00c2\u00a0 I did collect all of the issues from my home Lodge – Shu Shu Gah #24.\u00c2\u00a0 While I did have access to Bill Price’s OA Collecting Handbook, I was by no means part of the organized hobbby.\u00c2\u00a0 Life got in the way of collecting and fast forward 10 years in 1985 at the NE-3A Section Conclave, I began trading again.<\/p>\n

At this point, I became aware of and part of the organized hobby with the collectors journals and the Trade-o-ree circuit in the Northeast.\u00c2\u00a0 My 100+\/- accumualtion, became the basis for a name and number set.\u00c2\u00a0 By 1990-1991, my numbers needs were less than 50 and the going was getting tough (especially on the pocket).\u00c2\u00a0 In these pre-eBay days, the only time I was seeing my needs was on dealer or auction lists and rarely at TOR’s.<\/p>\n

Did you expand your collecting interests? Did you narrow your collecting interests?…perhaps a combo of both?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Here, I think my answer is both.\u00c2\u00a0 I decided to limit my collection to New York State and sold off most of my non-NY name and numbers (which helped cover the closing costs on a piece of property I bought)\u00c2\u00a0.\u00c2\u00a0 This cut my collecting interest from 700+.\/- names and numbers by about 90% to the 70 or so NY OA Lodges.\u00c2\u00a0 I expanded my sights from a\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0single issue to six flaps (one page of a 6-hole page) to all lodge issues.<\/p>\n

This eventually expanded to all Lodge and chapter issues from NY OA Lodges including neckerchiefs and event patches.\u00c2\u00a0 Today, the Blue Book, recognizes about 3000 issues and varieties from New York State and I collect them all.\u00c2\u00a0 I’ve also started to dable in NYS Section Conclave issues too.<\/p>\n

What do you collect?<\/strong>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Matt Kirkland asks What Made “U” Collect A Specific Lodge? on his blog The BlackEagleTrader. Patch collecting changes or evolves as interests in the field change from person to person. Ever sit back and thank how it all begin…or even how it will all end? How would I answer this question.\u00c2\u00a0 Well I guess I…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"series":[],"class_list":["post-854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scouting-blogs","wpcat-27-id"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pe0C4-dM","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nyoatrader.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nyoatrader.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nyoatrader.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nyoatrader.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nyoatrader.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nyoatrader.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nyoatrader.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nyoatrader.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nyoatrader.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=854"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nyoatrader.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}