Matt Delk and I talked recently about his idea to put together a traveling display of Scouting memorabilia. This got me to rethinking my ideas about this idea and last week an idea popped into my head. I explained it extensively in the Patreon video that was published yesterday. But I'll touch on some of it here.

• Boy Scouts Patch Lot of Over 100
• Boy Scout 1925-1986 Pins/Patches/Books
• (Ae15) Boy Scouts - 1950's Eagle Scout Medal
• Humorous Red And White Community Stripe Collection
• Wallkill River Works Walden NY BSA Folding Knife Lot E
• Lot of 17 1960s BSA Shoulder Patches +10 Misc patches
• BSA, Eagle Medal, Type 3 1933-1954 W/ Palms and Card
• BSA Schrade Utensil Mess Kit Folding Knife Fork Spoon & Pouch

For the first decade of buying collections I never sold an Eagle medal. Part of it was I didn't want to decipher Terry Groves ID system. But more to the point I actually felt a tinge of guilt selling a medal that someone worked so hard to earn. I understood how they ended up in my possession through estates or downsizing. But I just put them in a box for a long time.

• Misc Lot OA Flaps
• Felt Sash Boy Scout 1940’s
• Boy Scout Vigil 6" Chenille Jacket Patch Only 300 Made
• Lodge 345 Koi Hatachie Slide (Delta Area C.), Painted Metal
• BSA 2025 Section E6 Red Wolf Conclave Via Reception Patch
• BSA 2025 Section E6 Red Wolf Conclave Echneconnee Lodge 358
• Eternal Flame S1 Flap Lodge (Merged Erie Canal 159 & Tkaen Dod 30)
• National Leadership Seminar Southeast Region Staff Belt Buckle Cov15

In college I took an archaeology class that taught me when someone pulls an artifact out of the ground it can lose all context. It loses whatever connection it had to people who left it there and all the objects around it. So to translate this over once I break up the medal from the collection all that history of "WHO" earned it is lost. I felt the same way about the MB sash and similarly went about a decade before I sold one.

• Boy Scout Memoribilia , Patches Etc.
• Middle Tennessee Eagle Scout Patch
• Full Set Of 2013 National Jamboree Patches Patriots Path
• Boy Scout Cedarlands Wilderness Challenge Patch 254B1
• 1957 BSA National Jamboree Crew Neck T-Shirt – Undershirt
• Eagle Scout Knights of Dunamis Felt on Blue Sateen Pre-Nesa
• Boy Scout Patches, CSP, Burlington County 690, New, Lot of 14
• Boy Scout Camp James 1967 Piedmont North Carolina Segregated

I have three giant poster racks with maybe 75 panels between them. My idea is to have a display of Eagle Scouts from all over the country. I'll keep their medal, sash cards and a few other pieces of memorabilia to share where they are from and what they did. But I want to go further and have a QR code on the display where I have their obituary, maybe a short interview with them or their loved one. Just something so anyone viewing the display could learn more about how becoming an Eagle Scout influenced their life.

• Allemakewink Lodge 54 Morris Sussex Area NJ
• Sakima Lodge 573 LaSalle IN 1973-1993 Set Flap
• Na-Tsi-Hi Lodge 71 Monmouth NJ N1 Neckerchief
• Hinode Goya Lodge 498 Far East JP N3 "No Number"
• Occoneechee 104 NC 2010 100 YRS Jacket 6x7 Patch
• Nawakwa Lodge 3 Heart Of Virginia VA 1919-2019 Patch
• Unalachtigo 168 Pioneer Trails PA 1962 Area 3-F Neckerchief
• Chilantakoba Lodge 397 New Orleans Area LA Jamboree '95 Flap