While reviewing closed auctions, I came across an auction for a 2004 NOAC issue from Amangi Nacha Lodge #47. I have just one question why would a lodge issue a patch with only 6 made?
I’m not sure how this furthers the lodge program. I’d think as a member of the lodge, there would be no reason to collect their patches, because I could never complete a set. Why would they exdpect perople to continue to buy their new issues?
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“It is natural to man to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth — and listen to the song of that syren, till she transforms us into beasts. Is this the part of wise men, engaged in a great and arduous struggle for liberty? … For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it might cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst, and to provide for it.” –Patrick Henry
In 2004, for that year’s NOAC, Paugassett lodge 553 (Connecticut) sent 6 people to NOAC, and each got one special delegate patch.
6 delegates = 6 flaps.
don’t have one, and have pretty much written it off.
Jeff Ansley made a comment on my cross-post to Face book about your note “All I can ask is Why?”:
I agree with you. I hate that a lodge would make a instant rare patch. Are they thinking of lodge history or punishing those who did not go to NOAC. Also is this a bashing of patch collectors. There is no good reason to make only 6 of a patch. 47 is not alone in this misdeed.