Resources

Books      Links      Info Tidbits

Books  -  these are the "musts" for any collector!

First Flaps in Color

by Morley, Topkis, Thomas & Gould

may be ordered through Brush Creek Trading Company

An Aid To Collecting Selected Council Shoulder Patches with Valuation Guide

by Steve Austin, Tom Jones, James Ellis & Blake Keasey

The Blue Book - Standard Order of the Arrow Insignia Catalog, 4^th Edition

American Scouting Historical Society

may be ordered through Brush Creek Trading Company

A Comprehensive Guide to the Eagle Scout Award

by Terry Grove

Comprehensive Red & White Council Strips Checklist

by Bruce Raver

Philmont Millennium 1

by Chip S. Elliott and Mike McAdams with assistance from Conley Williams

Links

Official OA Sites & Individual Lodges      Fakes

Informational Sites     Individual Traders      Traders & Auctions

Commercial Sites      Native American Arts & Crafts

Official OA Sites & Individual Lodges

•  Official National Order of the Arrow Web Site    

•  Boy Scout Stuff - "A Virtual Boy Scout Museum"    

•  The National Scouting Museum    

•  The Official Order of the Arrow Web Site    

•  Cascade Pacific Council  -  My Council's official site   

•  Order of the Arrow Section W-1A   

•  Order of the Arrow Western Region

•  Lodge 442 - Wauna La-Mon'Tay  - My lodge's official site   

Fakes

•  Gilwell.com's list of fakes    

•  ISCA's list of fakes    

•  2001 W-1A Conclave dangle

•  442c Wauna La-Mon'tay fake of S-2 (per NWTA Newsletter, Volume 9, Issue 2-3, p. 22: the fake has black eyes (instead of white) and the bear's fur design has much more white than in the genuine patch)

•  442b Skyloo "repro" round fake

•  442a Hyas Chuck Kah Sun Klatawa fake of F-1 First Flap

Informational Sites - History, Associations, etc.

•  The Boy Scout Council Shoulder Patch Guide    

•  CouncilStrip.com  -  A very large searchable collection of CSP images   

•  Council Information - from ScoutPatch.com    

•  firstCSP    

•  firstFlap    

•  The Internet Guide to Order of the Arrow Insignia    

  •  Blue Book

•  OA Price Guide

•  Philmont Patches & Images

•  Philmont Scout Ranch - the official site   

•  National OA Items - national issue patches, dangles, sashes, and more   

Individual Traders

•  Kirk Doan    

•  Todd Hatfield    

•  Bruce Kaffenberger  -  The Louisiana Trader    

•  Steve Lundh  ("Tall's Patch Page")  -  lots of scans of CSPs & OA Flaps    

•  Larry K. Mitchell    

•  Mitch Reis    

•  Bruce Richardson

•  Dave Scocca

•  Alan J. Sorum

Traders / Auctions / Sellers

•  Boy Scout Patch Traders' WebRing

•  Boy Scout and Order of the Arrow Patch Traders Webring

•  eBay "Boy Scouts" Category (#13885)    

•  Heart of Texas Trader Home Page    

•  International Scouting Collector's Association - ISCA    

•  Lodge Members Society

•  Northwest Traders Association - NWTA - Chapter 1 of ISCA    

•  Patch-L - an Internet e-mailing list forming a discussion group of traders    

•  Gilwell.com - Wood Badge training, collector's links and more

•  The Patch Connection

•  The Patch Source Home Page

•  Patchtrade.com

•  RWSworld.com -  A great source for information about old red & white strips, and more.    

•  The Scout Patch Auction  

•  The Scout Patch Collector's Base Camp    

•  The Stevensons  -  Boy Scout & Girl Scout Memorabilia, Sales, Appraisals, etc.  

•  Streamwood    

•  Yahoo's Patch Trading category  

Commercial Sites

•  An Aid to Collecting Selected Council Shoulder Patches    

•  Arapaho Software  -  Tracking software for your OA collection    

•  The Council Shoulder Patch Guide    

•  Eastern Emblem Manufacturing Corp.  -  "Logos, Awards, Gifts, Fundraisers, Advertisers"

•  KC and Company  -  Custom Emblems

•  Blue Book Tracker software updates    

•  Krelman Company  -  patch makers used by many councils & lodges    

Native American Arts & Crafts

•  Kwahadi Dancers   

•  Claw, Antler & Hide Company

•  Coyote Trails   

•  Crazy Crow Trading Post   

•  Grey Owl's Catalog    

•  Lone Eagle Crafts

•  Matoska Trading Company

•  Moscow Hide & Fur

•  Mountain Ridge Trading Co.

•  Noc Bay Trading Company

•  Panther Primitives Inc.

•  Primitive Originals

•  Sioux Trading Post

•  Smoke & Fire Company

•  The Wandering Bull, Inc.

•  Two Bears Trading Co.

•  Wakeda Trading Post

Info Tidbits

•   Cascade Pacific Council SA-41 Eagle Scout CSP

  • This patch was created for members of the new (in 2002) Cascade Pacific Council Eagle Scout Association.  Members of the association may wear it as their official uniform's council shoulder patch.

•   491b Lo La 'Qam Geela

  •  A reliable source reports that the A2 wasn't actually approved by the lodge.  It's listed in the Blue Book anyway, though.

© 2000-2017 by Tim Giesbers, ISCA #1232

Last updated on Tuesday, August 8, 2017