US BSA Stamp Collecting Merit Badge Pamphlets

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Year	Front Cover	Author Page	Requirements			Back Cover	Notes
1931						Blank brown back cover	©1931 2M-December, 1931 On the front cover, "NEW YORK CITY" BSA No. 3359 Typo: last two requirements both numbered "7." pages iii, iv, 1-38, plus covers.
1932						Blank brown back cover	©1931 2M-March, 1932 Requirement 8 numbered properly pages iii, iv, 1-38, plus covers.
1933						Blank brown back cover	©1931 2M-September, 1933 pages iii, iv, 1-38, plus covers.
1935						Blank brown back cover	©1931 2M-November, 1935 On the front cover, "NEW YORK, N. Y." pages iii, iv, 1-38, plus covers.
1936						Blank brown back cover	©1931 3M-November, 1936 pages iii, iv, 1-38, plus covers.
1938						Blank brown back cover	©1931 2M-May, 1938 Requirements 1 to 3 revised. pages: 4 unnumbered, 1-38, 2 page center picture, plus covers.
1939						Blank brown back cover	©1931 3M-April, 1939 On the front cover, smaller First Class Badge, one address line. 44 (38 numbered) pages plus covers.
1942							©1931 2000342 Multicolor Covers and inside covers. Made with 3 staples. 44 (39 numbered) pages plus covers.
Early 1944							©1931 4000344 Multicolor Covers and inside covers. Made with 1 staple. 44 (39 numbered) pages plus covers.
Late 1944							©1931 4000344 Red only on front & back covers. Made with 1 staple. 44 (39 numbered) pages plus covers.
1945						Blank creme back cover	©1931 30001045 On the front cover, font of "COLLECTING" changed & Merit Badge image moved to the left. On the Author page, font size of "Printed in U.S.A." decreased. Requirement 6 was retyped. Made with 2 staples. 44 (39 numbered) pages plus covers.
1947						Blank creme back cover	©1931 30001147 44 (39 numbered) pages plus covers.
1948						Blank creme back cover	©1931 4000848 On the front cover, font of "COLLECTING" changed again. 44 (39 numbered) pages plus covers.
1950						Blank creme back cover	©1931 4000150 44 (39 numbered) pages plus covers.
Year	Front Cover	Author Page	Requirements	Reference Books		Back Cover	Notes
1951							©1951 5000551 Thorsen's Boy Scout Stamps of the World, 1950 added to Book section. 56 (51 numbered) pages plus covers.
1952							©1951 7000652 On cover, drawing of merit badge move 7mm to the right 56 (51 numbered) pages plus covers.
1954							©1951 15M654 Requirement 6d was printed too far to the left. [since 1952] Thorsen's Book's publisher changed to 'Redson-Rice'.[since 1952] Concession Plan paragraph removed from back cover [since 1952] 56 pages plus covers 25 Cents.
1955							©1951 20M555 Location of the National Council moved to New Brunswick, N.J. 56 pages plus covers 25 Cents.
1957							©1951 16M1057 56 pages plus covers 25 Cents.
1958							©1951 10M1158 56 (51 numbered) pages plus covers.
1960							©1951 17M460 Type was reset for requirements 1a, 6a, b & d. [since 1958] Publisher information was removed from the More Help in Books section. [since 1958] 56 (51 numbered) pages plus covers 35 Cents.
1961							©1951 18M1261 56 pages plus covers. 35¢
1963							©1951 18M363 56 pages plus covers. 35¢
1964							©1951 18M364 56 pages plus covers. 35¢
Year	Front Cover	Author Page	Requirements	Reference Books	Philatelic Societies	Back Cover	Notes
1965							©1951 18M265 Known with Hard Covers (called Library Bound Edition) with red "FDB" in circle printed on back hard cover. Boy Scout Stamps of the World was updated to Thorsen & McKinney's Scouts on Stamps of the World A Philatelic Societies section was added that contained SOSSI at 18 Ryan Road, Highland Park, NJ 56 pages plus soft covers. 35¢
1966							©1966 20M766 SOSSI contact information was changed to "May [sic] L. Rogers, secretary, 37 Spindle Road, Hicksville, N. Y. 11801" Library of Congress Catalog Card No. 19-600 40 pages plus covers. 35¢
1967							©1966 17M767 40 pages plus covers. 35¢
1968							©1966 33M968 Known with Hard Covers with "flb" in red square printed on back hard cover. 40 pages plus soft covers.
1971							©1966 15M171 On the Author page, the BSA city was changed from New Brunswick to North Brunswick [from 1968] 40 pages plus covers.
1972							©1966 15M272 On the Author page, W. Arthur McKinney's title changed to former Boys' Life stamp collecting editor. On the back hard cover of the Library Bound Edition, the two red dots below the "flb" red square have been replaced with the black number "3722". SOSSI Secretary Rogers' first name was corrected from "May" to "Jay" ISBN 0-8395-3359-4 40 pages plus covers.
1973							©1966 13M573 All 6 requirements were reworded, yet the copyright year was not changed. For the first time, the image of the merit badge, which is on every front cover, shows 2 stamps instead of 3. 40 pages plus covers.
Year	Front Cover	Author Page	Requirements		Philatelic Societies	Back Cover	Notes
1974							©1974 20M974 Harry Thorsen became the author and dramatically increased the visibility of Scout stamps, including a 7 page sub-section of the Topical Collections section and portions of his book Stories Behind The Scout Stamps. In this revision, the number of requirements was increased from 6 to 10. In the Philatelic Societies section, SOSSI's contact information was changed to "1000 Golfview Road, Glenview, Ill. 60025" 48 pages plus covers.


1976							©1974 10M1176 Thorsen's title changed to "Founder, Scouts on Stamps Society, International". [since 1974] Known with Hard Covers with green "FDB" logo and black "3722" printed on back hard cover. 48 pages plus covers.
1978							©1974 7M478 48 pages plus covers.
1980							©1974 6M980 The matching font of "STAMP COLLECTING" on the cover and the title page changed from hollow to serf. [since 1978] On title and first requirements pages, BSA location changed to Irving, Texas [since 1978] In 'Philatelic Societies', SOSSI address changed to "7305 Bounty Drive Sarasota, Fla. 33581" [since 1978] 48 pages plus covers.
1981							©1974 6.5M781 48 pages plus covers.
1983							©1974 6.5M783 Requirements were retyped [since 1981] In 'Philatelic Societies', SOSSI address changed to Tampa, FL [since 1981] 48 pages plus covers.
1984							©1974 5.5M1084 48 pages plus covers.
1986							©1974 5.5M186 48 pages plus covers.
1987							©1974 5M1187 48 pages plus covers.
1988							©1974 5M1188 48 pages plus covers.
1989							©1974 5.5M1089 48 pages plus covers.
1990							©1974 5M1190 On the front cover, additional white space was added under the second thick horizontal red line at top. 48 pages plus covers.
1993							©1993 4.5M893 Starting in this edition, the author was removed from the title page while credits were place in an Acknowledgments section. ISBN changed to 0-8395-3296-2 BSA No. changed to 33296 40 pages plus covers.
1995							©1993 4.5M595 40 pages plus covers.
1996							©1993 4.5M796 40 pages plus covers.
2000							©2000 BSA No. changed to 33296B 72 pages plus covers.
2002							©2000 72 pages plus covers.
2004							©2000 Items on the Acknowledgments page were reordered [since 2002] 72 pages plus covers.
2007							©2007 BSA No. changed from 33296B to 33296C [since 2004] 72 pages plus covers.
2008							©2007 First full color version. ISBN changed to 978-0-8395-3296-5 BSA No. changed to 35955 80 pages plus covers.
2011							©2007 On the front cover, BSA Emblem moved to bottom blue border with text in serif font [since 2008] Unnumbered page 80 changed from a "NOTES" page to a USA 2010 Scouting Stamp article BSA No. on back cover now referred to as "SKU" (Stock Keeping Unit) [since 2008] Printing year added to back cover [since 2008] 80 pages plus covers.
2013							©2013 Sustainable Forestry Initiative logo added to back cover [since 2011] 80 pages plus covers.
2018							©2013 NOVA logo and "STEM-Based" in bottom blue border. [since 2013] 80 pages plus covers. During the 2018 printing cycle, BSA changed the front and back covers and updated the inside back cover, NOVA logo and "STEM-Based" was removed from the front cover. On the back cover, in addition to the 4 images being replaced, the SKU was changed from 35955 to 623013 and the barcode from 30176 35995 to 30176 35800.