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Friday, June 6, 2025

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Vintage eBay Scout Auctions This Weekend

As I am finishing packing the van to head to the camp staff reunion this weekend I want to share another episode of the podcast. In my packing I found historical paper and pictures that I have not taken off the shelf since moving into this warehouse almost 5 years ago. Which means nobody in the outside world has seen them either! So with some inspiration from Ryan Losonsky I will try and do something about that going forward.


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Boy Scout Memorabilia Auctions on eBay

I don't buy many collections from people who consider themselves local historians. But there is a little piece of that in all of us that collect in this hobby. In going through things I found pictures from the early 1930s at my camp that I got copies of in 1998 which I've likely never showed anyone. What a tragedy! Almost 30 years of being the custodian of these pieces and I have been as guilty as others I find fault with for hoarding and not sharing.


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Patchblanket eBay Santeeswapper Store

On eBay I have 199 live auctions running with many good pieces getting bids. Some of this stuff comes from an awesome GA OA collection I picked up earlier in the year.


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Many of you can relate to this...back before we had kids (yes 20 years!) I spent a lot of time researching my local council. I spent hours and hours looking through newspapers by hand or on microfilm. When many of these went online I printed out reams of articles that then sat in a binder. But for many reasons I stopped pursuing that and this information has just lived in a box. This is probably another reason I keep mentioning an alumni association or historical committee. How can you take all this history that some of us are holding onto in private collections and use it to do something positive for Scouting today? Maybe it's one of the things that brings inactive alumni back the program in some shape or form?

Jason Spangler
SANTEESWAPPER LLC www.ScoutPatchCollectors.com