Scouting Hot Finds Boy Scout Memorabilia

For more than a decade the Scout Patch Collectors Base Camp has been the goto reference directory for those interested in Scouting memorabilia.  Glenn Chase is my guest tonight and I consider him to be one of the Internet pioneers of the hobby.  As the curator of the base camp since it launched he has probably seen every patch collecting website there is including many that are now long gone.  In...

Matt Delk has been collecting Scouting memorabilia just about his whole life. One of the most unique collections he has is Order of the Arrow belt buckles. This is a very niche collection and he shares his passion for it in this interview. Find more Scouting memorabilia content and all of my podcasts at http://www.scoutpatchcollectors.com .

When Gary Beadle looked up at the tall pine paneled wall of the Gulf Coast Council BSA Scout office he had an inspiration.  Why not decorate the beautiful wall with a true council collection of memorabilia.  He pitched the idea to the council board and Scout executive who were more than happy for him to undertake the project to commemorate the Boy Scouts of America's centennial celebration in 2010...

Ted Thompson was like many Boy Scout memorabilia collectors when he ran up against a collecting roadblock about five years ago.  His main interest was council shoulder strips but when he got down to a final list of the twenty-five toughies he had to come up with something new to pursue to keep his passion for the hobby going.  He remembered the words of his camp counselor, "if you ever get any Pro...

Boy Scout memorabilia collectors in this episode of Scouting Hot Finds Radio I wrap up 2013 and look to new projects in 2014.  Over the course of the year there have been 18 episodes of the show published with interviews from interesting people in the hobby such as Russell Smart, Chris Jensen, Deryl Radder and more.  Some of my web projects such as BoyScoutTweet.com changed their focus while other...

The effort to catalog and describe all known Order of the Arrow issues has been ongoing since the 1950s.  Many old collectors will remember the Bill Price books that had a picture of each flap and attempted to describe the restrictions.  David Leubitz had a book – the original Blue Book that tried to catalog the issues and introduced the vocabulary that many collectors are familiar with today such...

In the conclusion of my interview with Dan Coberly regarding American Scouting overseas we talk about what BSA Scouting has looked like in the War on Terrorism.  Dan discusses how Scouting has popped up in Iraq and Afghanistan led by soldiers who are reaching out to the community.  He also gives a neat history of the Overseas Arrowmen Association.  This is Part II of my interview so if you missed...

Growing up on an Air Force Base in rural South Carolina I knew all about the Transatlantic Council and even had some members of my troop that had been in the Far East Council.  So when I got in touch with Dan Coberly and found out he is a Distinguished Eagle with an incredible knowledge and history with American Scouting overseas I had to get him on the show.  In this interview Dan talks about wha...

While patch trading wasn't the only thing happening at the 2013 National Boy Scout Jamboree it was just as popular as ever with the Scouts, Scouters, and visitors.  On tonights episode I'm going to give my personal take on patch trading at the Jamboree.  I'll give my opinions and share my experiences having gone in for all 7 days that visitors were allowed to do so.  My guest is Rick Bedsworth who...

For the better part of a year I've been tweaking my own online strategy for selling Boy Scout memorabilia.  From closing my eBay store and Prostore in 2012 to reversing some of those decisions in the Spring its been a time of transition and testing.  Tonight I'll talk about all that and include an interview with Jody Tucker with details of one of the platforms that I've built a store on.  http://w...

Tens of thousands of Boy Scout youth and adult members are packing their bags and heading out for the 2013 National Boy Scout Jamboree this week.  You can count me among the crowd that is going to stream into a sleepy corner of West Virginia for the big event.  In tonight's episode of Scouting Hot Finds Radio I've got an update on the Mt. Hope Trade-O-Ree from Todd Kelly.  The TOR is going to run...

Join me for the launch of a new and invaluable resource for the Boy Scout meorabilia collecting community.  Brett Estrade and I are formally launching http://www.patchtrends.com in this episode.  Roughly a year ago I published an episode of the radio show that finally comes to fruition tonight.  In that show on the Prices Realized Guides I longed for an online solution that would make the whole pr...

Mike McAdams with help from Chip Elliott has just published Philmont Millennium 1 Second Edition which can be found at http://www.philmontm1.com .  This book is the definitive guide to memorabilia issued for everyone's favorite high adventure base in New Mexico.  I was able to catch up with Mike at a trade-o-ree this year when he sat down with a group of collectors to discuss the project and impen...

Tonight you will hear the conclusion of my interview with Deryl Radder who was the founder of the Scouting Collectors Society.  At one time this Yahoo club was the largest Scouting gathering of Scout patch collectors on the web.  In this episode he will share the story of the Y2K trade-o-ree and what led him to eventually pull the plug on the groups. Find more Scouting memorabilia content and all...

Way back before there was the Scout Patch Collectors Facebook Group there was a time Yahoo was doing some really cool things with groups.  From 1999 - 2006 the largest place for Scouters to meet up online and swap stories and patches was the Scouting Collectors Society.  With a brilliant strategy to use club patches as incentives Deryl Radder grew his Yahoo group into a prolific trade-o-ree on the...

Boy Scout collectors that have been in the hobby a long time know the Trade-O-Ree scene pretty well.  Your typical show is long on grey haired attendees and short on walk in traffic.  But there is another way.  John Ryan has been thinking outside the box for going on three decades with the Lone Star TOR in Grapevine Texas.  This year his show will include everything from a collections merit badge...

This is the show that all Boy Scout memorabilia collectors have been waiting for.  At the 2013 National Boy Scout Jamboree patch trading will be an official scheduled activity for the first time ever.  Patch trading between adult Scouters and youth Scouts will be allowed at a Jamboree for the first time in decades.  I would go so far as to say that my guest tonight is responsible for most of those...

What's the plan for this summer's big 2013 National Boy Scout Jamboree?  The Volunteer Program Group Chairman Russell Smart is my guest tonight and he'll take us inside the game plan for the Jamboree.  One of the features is comparing how this new Jamboree experience compares to the familiar A.P. Hill setting that many of us are familiar with.  This is Part 2 of an interview that started with an i...

If you are on a contingent, signed up for staff, or just heading up as a visitor to the 2013 National Boy Scout Jamboree being held this summer at the Boy Scout's new Summit Bechtel Reserve property - then this is the show for you.  Russell Smart is my guest and as a volunteer he is about at the top of the food chain when it comes to the Jamboree.  Russel has responsibility for the program at the...

Roy More of TSPA was in the middle of last year's ground shaking merger in Michigan that wiped out councils and may change the BSA playbook forever.  As Roy says in tonights show, some of this "scares the hell out of national (BSA)".  Listen in for a great show that should appeal to all Scouters. An email I got from a Scouting friend named Bruce McCrea explained some of this prior to the last NOAC...

As a Scouting memorabilia dealer for over three decades Chris Jensen has seen a lot of the changes in the hobby.  He was one of the first big sellers of Boy Scout memorabilia when eBay launched and remembers the good old days when he couldn't list stuff fast enough.  In part 2 of my interview with Chris we talk about eBay and its changing fortunes in the hobby.  The conversation then turns to Trad...

Back in the 1990s I was a college student who looked forward to the quarterly newspaper catalog of Boy Scout memorabilia that would show up in my university P.O. Box.  My guest tonight on Scouting Hot Finds Radio has been a full time Scout memorabilia dealer for going on three decades.  Chris Jensen, the owner of Streamwood.net is one of the most well known figures in the hobby.  He has organized...

Tonight's show is dedicated to a question that all hobbies face whether it be model train railroaders or in our case Boy Scout memorabilia collectors - how do you bring new people especially youth into the hobby.  While at the Dallas Trade-O-Ree I got the opinions of ten big names in the hobby to that question.  Ron Aldridge, Mitch Reis, Albertus Hoogeven and more gave me their ideas.  Listen in t...

On the show we have several guests who are on live to talk about the 2013 National Scout Jamboree Trade-O-Ree to be held in Mt. Hope, West Virginia just a few miles from the gates to the Summit Bechtel Reserve.  The town Mayor Michael Martin will be joined by TOR organizers Todd Kelly and Richard Mori to talk about the history of the area and what the Summit means to the area.  Having grown up in...

My guest tonight on Scouting Hot Finds Radio is Brian Ives of http://www. EagleScoutPins.com .  Brian is also known as eBay seller Discover626 and on tonight's show he will be sharing the details of how he got started collecting this unique are of Boy Scout Memorabilia.  We will learn about the Harmon Foundation Pin (Brian's most treasured pin!), the Knights of Dunamis, the National Eagle Scout As...