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What was this patch issued for?

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Tipping Point

Scouts are issuing more patches than our walletscan afford

- Lodge flaps that are never worn

- Contrived rarities

- Two-piece sets that fill TOR tables and notcollections

- CSPs issued for any reason and multiple border colors

We risk taking the fun out of the hobby

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How are we fighting this?

Some are dropping out of the hobby - BAD!!!!

Most though are:

- going in other directions where things are not crazy

- or going for depth rather than breadth

•  All issues from a council or lodge

•  All items not just cloth

Going for the best – going for quality- First flaps, First Issue CSPs, First Issue OA, WABs,

pre-mass produced items

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Examples

221 N/C slide - $203

1937 NJ poster - $761

 Air Explorer Card - $45

Yaqui Vigil Card - $960

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What do you need to do?

Carry your passion to others

Display your items with the history

Get educated and educate others

- Bring your friends to TORs, conclaves, banquets,SORs

- Participate in the collecting clubs

- Contribute information to the reference works

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“Old” History – '68 - '96

Bill Price's OA Illustrated Patch Guide : 1 patchper lodge

Reynolds/Leubitz Blue Book   – Single letter listing of lodge issues, guessed at sequence, noinformation on what they looked like other thanshape

Hoogeveen/Breithaupt/Leubitz Arapaho 2 &Arapaho 2 Updated 6,000 issues. Issue idschanged every 2 years

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“New” History – '96 - '06

1996 Four National Editors (Dr. Jeff Morley and Bill Topkisprovided final editing), 18 Regional Editors, nearly 100 editors

Locked in issue numbers, standard terms & colors

One volume, $10 (was missing issues)

 Added in Chapter Issues in 3rd edition (2 – volumes) (wasmissing issues)

 Added in Activity Patches in 4th edition (was missing issues)

6 editions last printed in 2006 – 3 volumes, $100, limiteddistribution – 50,000+ issues (was missing issues)

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Problems

Regional and Area editors can't keep up –  “I used to have 27 lodges and could keep up,

now I have 7 and I can't” - Randy Holden, NJeditor 

Decimal issue numbers Dropped issues

New research on issues and their sequence

History is being lost every day

Was missing issues

Other problems – collectors want more items

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Today BlueBook 2.0 – OABlueBook.Com

User supported – expert editor approved

Users can:

Enter issues –   but everything goes as “Pending” 

Enter historical information

Upload images

Point out errors or raise issues (i.e., flag

problems)

Editors have been assigned to approx 1/3rd of 

lodges

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Decisions

Re-number  – Yes we're due

 –  Means a modified id system.

Improve the standard for 'variety' – Less

issues/More MVE

Include more things if users want:

 –  Pins

 –  Hats

 –  Clothing

 –  other?

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Decisions

Editors will have the opportunity to re-number and mark for deletion

Facebook notices – Like “OA Blue Book” to

receive notices

Multi-stage approval:

Lodge editor - State/Area/Regional editor  – National editor 

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Future

Bulk upload from spreadsheet (in testing)

Print on demand – Print as few as one fromarchived PDF(s) probably updated every 6

months E-mail notification to editors of new issues/issue

changes

 Appeals – three stage expert panel