ClothTalk 025 - Topkis (part 2)

Posted in Featured, ClothTalk (enhanced) by Ben Killen on March 26th, 2007

Better late than never right? Sorry for the missed episode last time. Our brains were on spring break and they took our computers with them. But we’re back this week with the second half of our incredible interview with one of Scouting’s most notable collectors and historians: Bill Topkis.

Join us as Bill talks about the golden days of trading at events like the one he attended in Navarro California, as well as some of the best ways to store your collection archivally. Do you know the secret of the oldest known vigil pin? Bill does. But that’s not all, Bill knows a lot more about these OA Totem pins that predated flaps—like the elusive moose and the original gold turkey? Tune in as Bill gives us the scoop.

John Pannell isn’t with us this week—he’s come down with a bad case of March Madness. Also this week, we’ll get a report back from Ben’s ski excursion in the Poconos. And Daniel Hodge, creator of our notorious theme music, is moving back to the land of the midnight sun for good, but before he goes, he shares about some of the patches he’s come across since he’s been home. We forgot to include Brandon’s TOR update, but he’s been updating his reference page in the wiki. Sorry Brandon, we’ll be back on track next time.

Keywords: Bill Topkis, patch trading, patch collecting, OA flap, scout patch, scout badge, scout historian, Order of the Arrow, BSA, Boy Scouts of America, TSHP, The Scout History Project, Cloth Talk, Tim Hall, John Pannell, Ben Killen, Chris Brightwell, Brandon Ellis

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