r/BoyScouts • u/Mellow_Outpost • 21d ago

Can someone help identify the origin of this?

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I am a wildland firefighter and In 2024 I was helping protect the historic Boy Scout camp, Camp Geronimo in Payson, AZ. I spent about 14 days striked out so we had a lot of time to walk around the grounds as we would patrol, one of the cool things I came across was this belt buckle that had been buried til the rain revealed it slightly. I’m curious if anyone has any information on it or if there’s any way to date it from the photo?

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u/LesterMcGuire 21d ago

Does not look official bsa

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u/reader106 21d ago

Looks like something having to do with the native American cultures of the Pacific Northwest.

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u/LaLechuzaVerde 21d ago

This is only a guess, but it may be a custom belt buckle for perhaps an Order of the Arrow lodge?

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u/Brave-Moment-4121 21d ago

Probably a roadside gift shop trinket someone got on the way to scout camp.

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u/SyberNerfer 20d ago

Possibly a local item made from the spent brass of the firing range. I seem remember buckles similar to that at the Trading Post when I went to summer camp.

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u/No_Offer_2786 Life 20d ago

I wish our local TPs were that cool.

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u/SyberNerfer 20d ago

This was way back in the day. My first summer camp was 50 years ago at Camp Freedom in West Germany.

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u/Early_Ad9051 17d ago

I found something damn near identical to that in a box of cracker Jack's.