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Very cool item angore.
I know right where Mathiston is; I've driven through there from Memphis to Gulfport. That's a hard scrabble part of the world for sure.
Downtown Mathiston in the 1930s. From https://www.mathiston.ms.gov/
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It looks the same now but much less active. The main road used to go through the town but they moved the main road (US 82) in the 30s and took out my dad's family's back yard. The elevated storefronts were common in the area.
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I never received a certificate (or at least I don't remember receiving one), but in any case I still have the badge:
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BermudaSailor,
Please excuse me if Im off-base but did you post a picture of the reverse (back side) of the patch?
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Ernie,
I know it looks like it, but believe it or not that's the front.
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Gotcha, ok now I see it. It's sort of stylized. Thanks David
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I earned my Boy Scout merit badge, too. In fact, if it hadn’t been for two brothers I met soon after my family moved from New York State to Silver City, New Mexico, I might never have become a stamp collector.
Their dad worked for my dad and had invited my family to visit his family. Soon after we arrived on a Sunday afternoon, the two brothers invited me into their bedroom to show me their stamp collection. I was immediately hooked. I even got an introduction to the Scott stamp catalogue that day (It was only one hardbound volume then, with 450 or 500 pages in octavo size (6”X9”).
Not long after that, I joined the Boy Scouts and learned about the stamp collecting merit badge. I well remember studying hard to get that merit badge, as well as the test, administered by a postmaster who certainly knew a lot about stamp collecting and expected me to know it too!
Today in Canada, and in the U.S. too, probably, there is no such thing as merit badge for stamp collecting. In fact, it appears that a Scout today could start as a cub scout, become an Eagle Scout, and remain unaware of stamp collecting as a hobby, much less as a study of historical artefacts. I think that the term “dumbing down” fits this situation perfectly.
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Bob,
I checked the Boy Scout merit badge page via Google and Stamp Collecting is still a listed badge. To your point, however, it is doubtful that many kids earn that particular badge.
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Most of our scout leaders were from the US Military, so we tended more to the survival side of merit badges. I never got my stamp collecting badge, though I probably could have easily qualified.
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My dad two other certifications. One was for first aid.
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I found this information about Canadian Scout merit badges on-line .The only suggesting that might lead to stamp collecting was this:
"Start a new collection or add to a collection you already have.
Improve your display for the collection. What would you
recommend to others if collecting similar items? What is the
value of your collection? How do you take care to preserve
your collection?"
along with this form:
Here's a write-up I did some time ago (pre-web days) about my stamp collecting merit badge:
Bob
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Got my Stamp Collecting merit badge sometime in the early 1970s. It's sewn on my sash, with 29 other merit badges.
Got my first stamp album as a Christmas present from my grandparents, in 1966. I know that, because the last space in the album is for the 1966 Christmas stamp, and I remember filling that space on the Christmas day! It is a Minkus Worldwide. Its covers abandoned the field of play decades ago...
-Paul
PS, my best buddy in HS was in the same troop and his father Keith was Scoutmaster for many years. Keith worked at the local PO his entire life. He collected full sheets of every issue.
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I have been going through my dad's estate and found a Boy Scout Merit Badge certification. I never knew he had one.
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Very cool item angore.
I know right where Mathiston is; I've driven through there from Memphis to Gulfport. That's a hard scrabble part of the world for sure.
Downtown Mathiston in the 1930s. From https://www.mathiston.ms.gov/
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It looks the same now but much less active. The main road used to go through the town but they moved the main road (US 82) in the 30s and took out my dad's family's back yard. The elevated storefronts were common in the area.
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I never received a certificate (or at least I don't remember receiving one), but in any case I still have the badge:
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BermudaSailor,
Please excuse me if Im off-base but did you post a picture of the reverse (back side) of the patch?
Ernie
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Ernie,
I know it looks like it, but believe it or not that's the front.
David
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Gotcha, ok now I see it. It's sort of stylized. Thanks David
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I earned my Boy Scout merit badge, too. In fact, if it hadn’t been for two brothers I met soon after my family moved from New York State to Silver City, New Mexico, I might never have become a stamp collector.
Their dad worked for my dad and had invited my family to visit his family. Soon after we arrived on a Sunday afternoon, the two brothers invited me into their bedroom to show me their stamp collection. I was immediately hooked. I even got an introduction to the Scott stamp catalogue that day (It was only one hardbound volume then, with 450 or 500 pages in octavo size (6”X9”).
Not long after that, I joined the Boy Scouts and learned about the stamp collecting merit badge. I well remember studying hard to get that merit badge, as well as the test, administered by a postmaster who certainly knew a lot about stamp collecting and expected me to know it too!
Today in Canada, and in the U.S. too, probably, there is no such thing as merit badge for stamp collecting. In fact, it appears that a Scout today could start as a cub scout, become an Eagle Scout, and remain unaware of stamp collecting as a hobby, much less as a study of historical artefacts. I think that the term “dumbing down” fits this situation perfectly.
Bob
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Bob,
I checked the Boy Scout merit badge page via Google and Stamp Collecting is still a listed badge. To your point, however, it is doubtful that many kids earn that particular badge.
David
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Most of our scout leaders were from the US Military, so we tended more to the survival side of merit badges. I never got my stamp collecting badge, though I probably could have easily qualified.
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My dad two other certifications. One was for first aid.
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I found this information about Canadian Scout merit badges on-line .The only suggesting that might lead to stamp collecting was this:
"Start a new collection or add to a collection you already have.
Improve your display for the collection. What would you
recommend to others if collecting similar items? What is the
value of your collection? How do you take care to preserve
your collection?"
along with this form:
Here's a write-up I did some time ago (pre-web days) about my stamp collecting merit badge:
Bob
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Got my Stamp Collecting merit badge sometime in the early 1970s. It's sewn on my sash, with 29 other merit badges.
Got my first stamp album as a Christmas present from my grandparents, in 1966. I know that, because the last space in the album is for the 1966 Christmas stamp, and I remember filling that space on the Christmas day! It is a Minkus Worldwide. Its covers abandoned the field of play decades ago...
-Paul
PS, my best buddy in HS was in the same troop and his father Keith was Scoutmaster for many years. Keith worked at the local PO his entire life. He collected full sheets of every issue.
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