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Scouting Collectors Society was the largest collectors club of Scouting Memorabilia in the world from 1999-2006 when it was disbanded. Founded on June 29, 1999 by Deryl Radder in Erie, Pennsylvania , within 10 days the club had grown to 120 members and within the first month had 342 members. It continued to grow dramatically to have a membership over 1775 members.
Gathered from 60 plus Scouting countries, the membership included the most active of patch traders, and also made items that were taken by the members and traded at national and world jamborees.
It had a historic event at Y2K when around the clock trading from several hundred Scouters continued nonstop, and everybody came to see that "y2k" was a media event. A special set of patches was made for those participants in this unique worldwide Scouting event.
A book and Cd/rom was published of the club patch issues by a club member, and many of the patch issues became among the rarest in all of Scouting.
24 hours a day, 7 days a week the club was accessible on a yahoo website, and live voice chat enhanced the activities. Many of the members made international friends and have participated in trips internationally to deepen those friendships.
An Australian contingent brought Scouting Collectors of Australia badges to the 2001 Jamboree , and these were highly sought after. Those Australians were members of both the Scouting Collectors Society and their local club as well. Also members from all 50 states at the national jamboree pursued Council Shoulder Patches that featured each state in its special design, and many of these are among the hardest to find of all patch issues in all of Scouting.
Also, there was a beautiful CSP set called "Eagles Fly Highest". Made for all 50 states, an Eagle is shown flying by the Statue of Liberty, another by Lincoln's house, another by the Alamo, another by the Golden Gate Bridge, and yet another by the Niagara Falls Bridge. Plus each state had its own issue, and this set made to honor Eagle Scouts was a forerunner to the now more common practice of Scout councils doing Eagle issues. This set is extremely valuable, and hard to put together.
The club members were the most active and honest in the entire hobby, and carefully adhered to the Scout law. Trades came in a very reliable manner, and any "bad trader" was quickly expelled and the membership warned.
Occasionally spammers tried to ruin or infiltrate the club, and it was a huge task supervising such a busy, totally free enterprise.
Never before or since has such an international Scouting club been totally free, with no membership dues or financial requirements on its members.
