Scouting Hot Finds Boy Scout Memorabilia

Straight from the pages of Scouting Magazine!  Will Scouts be able to continue the legacy of swapping patches at the Summit? See what your Scouts can expect when it comes to patch trading at the 2013 National Scout Jamboree.  My guest tonight is Spencer Haberman who was featured in the current issue of Scouting Magazine.  The article titled, "Summit Shakedown preview: Patch trading at the 2013 Nat...

In the summer of 2013 when 50,000 Scouts and Scouters get together for the first National Jamboree to be held at the Summit Bechtel Reserve you know there is going to be some trading going on.  My guest tonight, Todd Kelly is organizing the huge Jamboree Trade-O-Ree (TOR) for Boy Scout memorabilia collectors that will run from July 13th - 21st in the town of Mt. Hope, WV just a few miles from the...

Welcome back listeners!  After a nice break following the 2012 National Order of the Arrow Conference (NOAC) I am ready to launch the fall schedule of Scouting Hot Finds Radio.  These shows are dedicated to interesting topics related to the hobby of collecting Boy Scout memorabilia.  Past shows have included interviews with interesting people about different topics including segregated Scouting, t...

Boy Scout patch collectors the National Order of the Arrow Conference just wrapped up at Michigan State University and now everyone is home recovering from a lack of sleep and sorting their patches.  I was in the trenches for 10 days including the NOAC Trade-O-Ree and lots of patch trading at the NOAC.  In this show I'll break down the winners and losers from the event.  Hear my take on the TOR an...

After nearly twenty years of research and a thousands of hours of work by an army of state editors tonight its here - The Camp Book II.  This is the definitive guide to collecting Boy Scout camps written by Bob Sherman, Dave Minnihan and Kevin Doyle.  Covering a full 1,000 pages this historical reference guide is probably among the most important works in preserving Boy Scout history on a national...

Over the last few episodes we've talked a lot about selling Scouting memorabilia on the Internet.  From Facebook Stores to eBay fees that topic has been covered in depth.  One of the interesting pieces of feedback I got from a listener was what about the other side of the transaction?  So tonight we are turning the tables and looking at things from the buyers perspective.  Dave Scocca of North Car...

Join me for a discussion about how to buy and sell Boy Scout memorabilia online bypassing the juggernaut online marketplace - eBay.  I'll be sharing my story of opening an off-eBay store over 5 years ago and how that has worked for me.  I'll also go into two eBay competitor auction sites that perhaps you have never heard of named Webstore and eBid.  The discussion will also get into some unorthodo...

In this episode of Scouting Hot Finds I'm going to tackle two big questions that a lot of people have when dealing with Boy Scout memorabilia.  The first is how to get started whether through an estate sale, craigs list, or finding a trading assistant willing to help you.  The second part of the show is a little bit more sophisticated and discusses the various online alternatives you have.  We wil...

Tonight its a rare show where I'm going to be live on the mike and looking for your phone calls.  My topic is the Trade-O-Ree. I just got home from a neat local show and I want to share some of my experiences and have the listeners call in and share some of their favorite TOR stories.  I'm also going to give an update on the NOAC TOR which will be the grand daddy of them all for 2012. Find more Sc...

Join me as my guest Mark James of Double Eagle Trading tells the story of how he took his hobby of patch trading and knowledge of building website and married them together to build one of the best Scout memorabilia online stores off eBay.  Mark dishes some advice about how to get started online and shares his stories of his big catches and big disappointments getting started as a patch dealer.  I...

The first Eagle Scout was awarded in 1912.  This year the BSA is celebrating the centennial of the Eagle Scout award and my guest tonight is the recognized expert on the memorabilia issued for the highest rank in the Boy Scouts of America.  My guest tonight, Dr. Terry Grove, literally wrote the book on Eagle Scout memorabilia in 1990. With subsequent editions he updated the material and broadened...

If you have been collecting Boy Scout memorabilia for some time then the names Arapahoe and its principal author Albertus Hoogeveen will be familiar names.  Today in collecting circles we talk about the Blue Book as the primary reference guide for Order of the Arrow (OA) collectors.  However before that it was Araphoe II - A History of the Order of the Arrow Through Insignia published in 1979, tha...

Brad England and Debbie Hite join me for a rare totally live episode of Scouting Hot Finds Radio.  We are doing this one with no mulligans and looking forward to some audience participation in the chat room and on the call in line.  You might have guessed that our main topic is...trading patches.  Brad England is one of the moderators of the Scout Patch Collectors Facebook Group.  He will share so...

Tonight I am talking with Bob Hannah who has fifty years of experience collecting and trading Boy Scout memorabilia.  He and his wife also run their own Scouting museum right out of their home.  One of the neat things Bob will talk about is how the hobby has changed over those five decades.  For those of us enjoying the resurgence of trading through Facebook - Bob will reminisce about trading thro...

Tonight we conclude the interview with Brad England who has perfected a strategy for trading Boy Scout patches on Facebook with people all over the world.  In this episode Brad explains exactly who to upload your images and use the built in Facebook tools such as tagging to make trades.  There are some tricks that make Facebook a unique platform for swapping as they like to call it overseas and Br...

I knew I was on to something when I saw tonight's guest trading like a mad man using simple Facebook tools.  Brad England has perfected a patch trading strategy that we are sharing on today's show.  By creating a Facebook profile just for his Scouting and trading endeavors, Brad has been able to connect with Scouters from all over the world during the last two years through Facebook trading.  Boy...

Boy Scout collectors will want to tune in to hear the conclusion of my interview with Roy More of the Scout Patch Auction talking about the long awaited revision of the OA reference guide known as the OA Blue Book.  Its been just six years since the last guide was published but WWW collectors are well aware of just how many issues have come out since then.  In part 1 of this recorded session we he...

Order of the Arrow collectors have been asking for some time now - "what's up with the Blue Book?"  Well today on the show we have the answer.  Roy More of the Scout Patch Auction now holds the right to the publication and he is activety working on the project and recruiting help.  I was able to attend his session at the ISCA National Convention regarding the Blue Book project and I've got part 1...

Join me for some big announcements regarding Boy Scout patch trading at the 2012 National Order of the Arrow  Conference (NOAC) and the 2013 Boy Scouts of America National Jamboree.  I've known about some of this for months but I couldn't let any of it slip until it was official.  The two breaking news items are the location of the evening trading at NOAC and the total scoop on trading at the Jamb...

Tonight I'm happy to welcome Brett Estrade webmaster of Patchlodge.com to the virtual guest chair.  Brett is an avid collector and former Lodge Chief of Chilantakoba 397 who has used his skills as a computer programmer to build a website that caters to a specific need in the Boy Scout collecting community.  Patchlodge.com serves as a virtual image gallery where you can host your Scouting memorabil...

On the show today I wrap up my three part conversation with John Pannell webmaster of OAimages.com.  We are looking for some action on the phone line as John is coming on live to take listener questions or comments. Find more Scouting memorabilia content and all of my podcasts at http://www.scoutpatchcollectors.com .

Join me as I continue my interview with John Pannell of OAimages.com.  As the webmaster of easily the most visited website in the Boy Scout memorabilia collecting hobby - John opens up about how he built his site and gives us the scoop on where he is now 15 years into this labor of love.  Listen as we get under the hood of his website and discover how much its changed over the years.  John goes in...

Here is the interview you have been waiting for Boy Scout patch collectors.  I've got John Pannell of OAimages.com in the virtual guest seat for this show.  John is going to share with us the story of how he took over a struggling website with a few hundred images fifteen years ago and began work to transform it into the #1 reference site for Order of the Arrow collectors now getting an average of...

In this episode I conclude my interview with Todd Kelly of Big Rock Publishing.  Todd goes on to talk about classic Scout fiction of the teens - 1930s including some of his favorite titles.  Boy Scouts looked a little different in those days and if you believed everything you read in those books you might be shocked.  However, its clear that these titles cemented the spirit of Scouting in prewar y...

Tonight my guest on the show is Todd Kelly who runs an online publishing business that has many Scouting titles in its inventory.  Todd's passion for collecting Scouting memorabilia is old handbooks, magazines and especially Scout fiction books which were very popular from the teens through the 1930s.  In the interview Todd is going to help share the history of these Scout fiction books as they ar...