Battled the heat, paid off with silver and a bobcat

[p2c]

After getting skunked in the woods yesterday I wanted to have something to show for this weekend, so I went out from 2 pm to 6:30 today in the hot. Spent part of the time in the woods/ nothing there but a scant amount of clad. Then went back to a grove in the woods where I pulled a Rosie and a Barber earlier this year. I spent a 2 to 3 hours in the hot sun in the open. Probably about 2 hours in, I got a 1946-d Rosie (at least something). It was only 3 inches deep. It was so dark (tarnish) I had to do a triple take on the date to make sure I was actually holding silver.




Then near the end I found this small thing. It says BOBCAT on the top and CUB SCOUTS BSA around the bottom, with a picture of a bobcat in the middle. It looks as if a pin may have used to have been attached to the back. Any former cub scouts out there know what this is?


HH,
Jon

 

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[treasurefiend]

Sweet finds!!!

 

[Mayo South Elgin]

I think maybe the Bobcat pin was a merit badge of sorts for attaining or accomplishing some projects or quantity of good deeds. When I was in Cub Scouts I think all we did was glue macaroni on old cigar boxes and then spray paint them. I liked chewing the dry macaroni. (Before it was painted)

Just try and walk an old lady across the street nowadays and you'll probably get sprayed with mace or tossed into traffic with a kung fu grip.
The BSA is of course, Boy Scouts of America


Cool finds on a hot day!

 

[Lowbatts]

Check this link:
http://www.drexelantiques.com/scouting4.htmlt

There's a bobcat pin on it. My brief foray into scouting ended when a den mom's son tried acting like a tyrant "because he could" which resulted in me earning a badge for violence and being expelled.

I think there are several orders of scouts, bear, wolf, tiger, possum or some other. Bobcat pin may be for the tiger order in cub scouts. C'mon, one of yuse guys gotta have some scouting history, eh?

 

[kimsdad]

Great finds!!!

It's funny how some silvers come up dark like that.

If I remember, Bobcat was the entry level rank when you were in Cub Scouts.

Mayo, you should have waited to eat the macaroni until they were painted - they tasted better!

 

[litefire56]

Nice score on the silver!

In 1938, the Bob Cat pin was introduced as the entry-level badge for a new Cub. It was only to be worn on civilian clothes. This first Bob Cat pin can be identified because it has the words CUBS B.S.A. on lower front. These words changed to CUB SCOUTS, B.S.A. in 1948 when the cloth ranks badges made the same change. Sometime between 1948 and the 1950's the word BOB CAT on the pin was changed from two words to one word, BOBCAT. In 1959, the Bobcat pin was approved for uniform wear.

 

[Pocket Spill]

WTG on the Rosie!