Mike's and Ben's Patch Trading

About Our Trading

If you're a patch trader, then you know all about the fun that this Scouting pastime can lead to. I've spent many enjoyable hours in years past with other Scouts and Scouters working trades. I remember carrying my little sack of patches around Tent City at Philmont back in 1966, spreading out my growing collection at the World Jamboree in 1967 across from another Scout. I remember the offers, rejections, and haggling while you got to know the other Scout. But most of all, I remember the smiles and the handshake once everyone was happy with the trade.

Ben Swears em in

Once my son Ben and I got active in Scouting a few years ago, I dug up my old patch collection to show him what Patch Trading was all about. I began to get interested in it once again, and when I attended an OA Section W3B Conclave in the Fall of 1995, I took my trading stock along and wandered down to the trading room on Saturday night to see what was going on.

Mike

     Well, needless to say, I was a little intimidated wandering among these "professional" traders with my little bag of patches after a nearly 30 year layoff, but I managed to make a few trades and get to meet some folks that I now look forward to seeing every year at these events.

     My son, Ben, decided he liked this stuff, too, and has become quite a flap trader, working on building a number collection of OA Lodge Flaps. We are always looking for items from 278 Yo-Se-Mite.

     I decided to specialize in National Jamboree items. Lots of the patches I collected are displayed on other pages in this web site. On this page, Ben and I will offer what we have for what we would like to get.

     Please feel free to ask any questions about trading for any of the patches listed here.

National Jamboree Items

     Collecting National Jamboree items is where i began collecting, so it will always remains interesting to me. Of all the Scouting events that are held, the Boy Scout Jamborees are usually the events that Scouts remember for the rest of their lives. I was able to attend the 1967 World Jamboree as a Patrol Leader of Region 12's Troop 28 and got to meet Lady Baden-Powell there. So far in my Scouting, I have been unable to attend a National Jamboree, but hope to make it to the next one. I was able to send Ben to the last one and he came back saying that he is going to "every Jamboree they ever have!"

     I started working on my National Jamboree collection in my first trading session, getting a 1964 pocket patch for some of my patches while at Philmont in 1966. I soon added to it with some 1960 Jamboree items, and at the 1967 World Jamboree, got the prize of my collection: a 1937 Pocket Patch in almost mint condition.

     Since then, I have worked on my National Jamboree collection and am very proud of it. I've probably gone as far with it as i ever am, just because i have most of the common items and the ones i still need are pretty pricey! Scans of the pocket patches from this collection can be seen here. I am very thankful to the many "professional" traders and collectors that have, that for no reason that I can figure out, helped me put together this collection by finding items that I had that they were willing to trade for the Jamboree items that I prize so highly. Joe Gassoway and Albertus Hoogeveen come to mind for their help with some of the older stuff.

Council Shoulder Patches

Here are images of the CSPs issued by the Yosemite Area Council during it's 77 year history.

T1a	T1b	T2a	T2b
S3a	S3b	S4	S5
S6	S7	S8	S9

There is also a great back patch
that celebrates Yosemite Area Council's 75th Anniversary.

And here are the First New Issues of the Greater Yosemite Council.

Here's the S1	Here's the S2
Here's the S3 FOS	Here's the S4

Links to other Traders

Here's a list of other Patch Traders. If you want to be here, let us know!

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