It’s Throwback Thursday. In going through my files, I came across my copy of the prices realized for the Don Dennison “Sale of Sales”, one of the earliest (maybe THE earliest) published prices realized for the sale of individual Scout memorabilia. Jack Keane published this on mimeograph (for Millennials this was an era before MS Word).

Some background on Don. He was the organizer and host for the Amaquonsippi Trail in southern Illinois. He was also a passionate patch collector of Scout patches: OA, jamboree, regions, and more.

Bruce Richardson has a great site referencing the collectibles associated with this trail. Check it out here.

Conducted in 1970, this was before there was any catalog of issues, this predated Arapaho I and II, so Don had to define the terms used in his sale listing.

So ultimately we do not know the specific issues as we define them these days but one can well infer what issue they were for many of the lodges and items as so few issues existed at this time. Remember, I do, that lodges often kept the same issue for several years! Rather than today’s practice to make a new issue every few months or faster.

Some quick observations:

• The high prices realized for OA issues included:
  • 8 R solid: $117.76
  • 13 R Wakag (sic) (what later was turned out to be a Dovidio fake): $45
  • 34 Ko-Nosh-I-Oni sold for more than 34 Gonlix
  • 47 R (Hanigus): $150
  • Still active lodges sold for more than many merged lodges:
    • 89 F (Kepayshowink, Mischigonong did not exist): $83.76
    • 96 S: $90
    • 526 F: $120
    • 555 S: $75 (at the time, restricted to National pros)
• Some of the other patches (there weren’t many offered)
  • Region 2 patch: $23.30
  • 1937 NJ patch: $75
  • 1953 NJ patch: $15

Here are the sales result pages. Note, this was an era where gas was $0.36 per gallon. New flaps cost a quarter.

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