One fond memory I have from my Scouting days is visiting the 1989 Jamboree in Fort A.P. Hill. Our family of four drove from Kansas City to Washington, D.C. to do some siteseeing and to also spend time at the Jamboree. It was a fun vacation that also including some Scouting. At the jamboree I made my first trade, a Troop 86 neckerchief for another troop neckerchief (I don’t recall the number/location, but I still have it somewhere in a box). The highlight was going to the opening show and seeing a laser light production produced by Steven Spielberg, it sounds corny now, but it was pretty impressive to a 12 year old.
Of course, there was plently of other memorobilia associated with the Jamboree including a few issues from Heart of America Council. First up is the neckerchief:
I can imagine that multiple color combinations were used for the fabric and screen printing for each Jamboree troop from the Council, however, this is the only instance of the neckerchief that I have located.
In addition to the neckerchiefs, there were also CSPs. The standard-issue CSP has a yellow border:
And Jamboree attendees also received a gold mylar version of the patch:
In addition to the two patches above, prototypes of these patches have also surfaced. Here’s a look at some of the alternate border colors considered for this patch (purple, blue and red):
Another interesting note is that the council-issued CSPs have vertical stitching in the background while the prototypes shown here (including the gold mylar and yellow varieties) have horizontal stitching.
