Ahh the power of the internet. I was recently adding in several hundred camp patches to our shopping cart. Camp patches are a great area of collecting in our hobby. They are part of the foundation of Scouting; the fun ‘means’ to the ‘ends’ of citizenship development. Part of the fun, and frustration, with collecting camp patches is the identification of particularly early pieces.

Amongst the items we have was the following patch:

Well as coincidence would have it, this patch just appeared on eBay. The seller provided the following information that sounds authoratative and accurate:

1951 Camp Chawanakee felt Chief patch never used. This felt was used at other camps in Califormia and other in the USA as well. Hard to find and was used from 1951-1953. Camp Chawanakee is a camp at Shaver Lake in Fresno California.

Here’s the Hunter patch:

Here’s the Warrior patch: