The Internet Guide to OA Insignia

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Internet Guide to Order of the Arrow Insignia

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Lodge 104: New Monochrome Prototypes

In 2005 Occoneechee lodge issued a blue monochrome flap (S58) in order to help raise funds for a proposed new lodge building. This was to be the first of several such patches, issued one at a time at lodge events. However the lodge leadership changed. The new officers were not so keen on this idea and no further monochrome flaps were issued. That will soon change.

The lodge will issue four more monochrome flaps. In preparation for these issues Shelby Patch Company produced four different prototypes. Two copies of each were made. One set remains in Shelby's archive. Occoneechee lodge owns the other set. There has been some thought given to the lodge auctioning its set of prototypes, like they did for the S58 prototype (YS2?).

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An online price guide is now the newest feature added to this site. Currently, the price guide contains 322,155 records of compiled real sales data and additional statistics to help gauge a patch's current "market value".

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OA Song - Original Words

The music to the OA song has been used in many places since it was first composed by Alexis Lvov in 1833 as the Russian (Tsarist) National Anthem. A performance of this orignal anthem can be found in MP3 format at the link below. Does your lodge sound like this when they sing? *grin*

Original music for OA Song

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Other Scouting Honor Societies

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The Internet Guide to Order of the Arrow Insignia is published and maintained by John Pannell, jpannell "at" oaimages.com, © 1997 - 2008. This site is the result of many thousands of hours' work by many generous persons. The images here are free for others' non-profit use. Use of these images for profit without express written permission is expressly and strictly forbidden. Please note that eBay policy expressly forbids the use of another eBay user's images without permission.

Much assistance for this site has been given by members of the American Scouting Historical Society and the International Scouting Collectors Association for which I am grateful. The identification and cataloging of all issues pictured in this guide are correct to the best of my knowledge. No further warranties of the accuracy of this information are made or implied.

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