Destry was recently back home in southern Illinois visiting with family and friends and doing some patch digging. Among the things he picked up was an original printing of the prices realized from the sale of the Don Dennison Order of the Arrow collection in 1970. Don was the sponsor/organizer of the Amaquansippi Trail and Trade-o-rees back during that time period. This trail and the TOR brought folks in from multiple states away. It was one of the most popular trails in the area and their patches are still actively collected.

I scanned in the print-out. See the PDF in the following link:

Prices Realized from sale of Don Dennison OA collection 1970

This was pre-Blue Book, as most of today’s collectors know the Blue Book, and pre-Arapaho. Actually there was a Blue Book that Dave Leubitz sold around that time. It contained lodge names and numbers and the types of issues they issued but no detail and nothing on sequence (although the way the shapes were listed implied the issue sequence as we knew it at the time.) Thus in the listing, you don’t see ‘F1 first flap’ but you do see F c/e (cut-edge) with a border color and background color that allows you to infer the issue.

There were very few patches that sold over $100. Some were:

The lodge 8 Unilachtigo solid round fake at $117.76. Go figure. Its around $25 today. A 47 Hanigus R3 was the most expensive at $150. More than the 155 R ($110), the 177 Victorio F1 at $46.77 (remember this was only a 6 year old patch at the time). A 448 Wapagoklos with a needlebreak sold for $137.50 and a 526 Nahak sold for $126.