Live Blogging the Jamboree – Lessons from Collections MB

Posted on August 4th, 2010 in Jamborees,Uncategorized by ramore

While counseling the Collections merit badge, one of the questions I would ask was “Out of this group of four patches, which one is the fake?” I would set out an old Grand Canyon CSP with BSA but no FDL, an Ashie pre-FDL flap, a 479 NOAC flap, and an Echokotee privately made re-issue. I don’t think I ever had a Scout who got it right.

Some thought the Grand Canyon was a fake because it did not have a FDL. Everyone got the 479 right (it had a FDL but some were still guessing as it did not have printing on the back nor a hologram).

They almost all said the Ashie was a fake. Why? Because it did not have BSA or FDL or BSA printing on the back, none of my examples did, nor a hologram on the back. To a person they all said the lodge 200 flap was real. Thus the teachable moment. What you have been told is wrong. The only way to know is to get knowledge. And, until then trade 1 for 1.

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