Commissioner Arrowhead Award documentation
From time to time I’ve had come through our hands gold arrowheads and silver arrowheads as well as the current white arrowheads. The white arrowheads are well known as a Commissioner award. I had been told the gold was also but an earlier version. No one knew though what the much rarer silver arrowhead represented. One of the interesting finds from the Angus MacBryde estate auction was this from his collection. Given that he was in the Supply Division and had access to their records, I’m assuming that his write-up is correct. This would say that the silver was actually the early Commissioner award and that the gold arrowhead was a Scouter award. It would make sense as the gold, although uncommon, turns up more than the silver one.
on January 16th, 2006 at 1:19 pm
As to the scarcity of the Silver version, was the Commissioner’s Arrowhead more difficult to earn in olden days? Or, were there simply fewer commissioners back then, owing to smaller councils, and therefore, more Professionals (particularly the old Neighborhood Executives)? Just curious.
on January 27th, 2006 at 4:19 pm
It must have been harder to earn or maybe was not offered everywhere. Prior to seeing this group in Angus’ collection, I and others had assumed the gold arrowhead was the first Commissioner’s Award. Given the dating here, someone needs to check Scouting magazines of that era and see if this was discussed.