Dave Scocca sent me an email about a month ago that I just uncovered from my pile questioning the origins of the 49QS1.
The issue dates back to the mid-late 1980’s and was uncovered by Frank Mullane and Gene Berman. Frank had it first and traded it to Gene as a curiousity.
Gene, began digging and eventually wrote a short piece in, if memory serves, the National Scout Collectors Society Quarterly. As far as he could determine, the lodge never ordered, nor was offered this flap. Although it was the basic design of the times, the color combination and wording was never used.  It was likely a manufactueres error, and discoverd by the manufactures quality control before being sent to the lodge.
For the 80’s and 1990’s this was a seldom seen piece, but like several other fakes/misprints a number of these flaps have surfaced on our favorite auction site over the past few months. The flap is pictured below. Note the double Queens Council
