Scouting Hot Finds Boy Scout Memorabilia

Join me for a show dedicated to history of the Scouting Memorabilia hobby.  My guest is Craig Leighty the President of the International Scouting Collectors Association (ISCA).  Craig will share the story of ISCAs founding by tracing the organizations that sprouted in the hobby going back decades including the Texas Traders Den, ASTA and others.  We will also get to hear what ISCA is doing now in...

Join me live Wednesday night as I have the conclusion of my interview with Paul Gowder the webmaster of PowWows.com.  In this episode Paul and I take a trip down memory lane and tell some stories of our days getting the patch bug as fresh Ordeal members in the Order of the Arrow.  Some fo the stories might make you cringe both from the bad trades we made and the characters we met along the way.  I...

I've got Paul Gowder on this week's show.  Paul is the webmaster of PowWows.com - an incredible web community of Native Americans that numbers 100,000+ strong.  In this show we will talk about how this Eagle Scout and Vigil Honor member of the OA took his passion for N.A. dancing and built a website from scratch in the mid-90s that grew into the giant family of websites that make up the PowWows.co...

Join me for Part 2 of my interview with Jason Shull on segregated Scouting and specifically the memorabilia that was issued for segregated camps. In this show Jason will hit on some intersting topics such as which are the "Holy Grail" patches from segregated Scout camps.  He will also tell us about his collection including how he got back one of his biggest regrets in the hobby.  Join us for the l...

Join us for the first episode of Scouting Hot Finds Radio.  Our guest is Jason Shull who is a well known collector that has an interesting specialty.  Jason began collecting segregated Scout camp memorabilia several years ago and now has one of the top collections in the country for this niche area.  In part 1 of my interview with Jason he recaps some of the history of segregated Scout camps and w...

This episode of the Scouting Hot Finds Podcast check in to see what are some of the most interesting auctions on eBay in the Boy Scout category.  First up we look at an Explorer Silver Award medal from the 1950s.  I go back and correct a broken link in the newsletter by highlighting an auction for a large Boy Scout poster that looks very much like a Rockwell inspired piece.  The big listing specia...

Join the santeeswapper for a discussion of the best live auctions on eBay.  In this episode we are taking a closer look at a nice 1930s era Boy Scout lot that includes an Eagle medal, sash, and more.  I will also tell you about some rare Sea Scout blue insignia patches that are practically twins.  In OA I've got a focus on a Lodge 404 Ti'ak dance team patch from the 1970s.  We will also hear about...

Today on the Scouting Hot Finds Podcast we take a look at the Top 10 Video series that I am starting up on the blog at ScoutingHotFinds.com.  These youtube videos are short reports on the Boy Scout category of eBay showing the Top 10 selling auctions from the last week.  I'm headed off to the Santee Lodge 116 Fall Fellowhsip with plans to teach a Patch Trading 101 class Saturday afternoon.  I'll b...

In this inaugural episode of the Scouting Hot Finds Podcast we will find out what are the best live auctions in the Boy Scout category of eBay.  Featured auctions include an incredible listing that ended Monday night for a West Surburban Council cut-edge csp from 1960 that sold for multiple times its book value in a bidding war.  You will also hear about my favorite live auctions including a pair...