1979 Dalajamb Sweden USA Contingent Patch, Embroidered, BSA, Boy Scouts

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1979 Dalajamb 1979 Sweden USA Contingent Patch, Embroidered, BSA, Boy Scouts
These patches would make a great addition to any scouting collectors collection, there getting harder to find and one of the most uncommon of the World Jamboree Patches due to it's limited participation.
The
15th World Scout Jamboree
was scheduled to be held 15–23 July 1979 and was to be hosted by
Iran
at
Nishapur
, but was cancelled due to the
Iranian Revolution
which took place in 1979.
The 15th World Jamboree was to be held at the 10 square kilometre
Omar Khayyám
Scout Park, near the Afghanistan and
Soviet Turkmanistan
borders. The
Second Asia-Pacific Jamboree
was held at the site in preparation, in the summer of 1977.
However, the destabilizing events of the
Islamic Revolution
caused the 15th World Jamboree to be cancelled near the end of 1978. Instead, the
World Organization of the Scout Movement
announced the "World Jamboree Year" by holding several international World Jamboree Year camps in
Australia
,
Canada
,
Sweden
,
Switzerland
and the
United States
that took up the momentum. However, a number of commemorative items had already been made for the event, the demand for which and the value of which was greatly inflated by the Jamboree's cancellation. The few items of memorabilia in existence are of huge value to collectors when they, albeit rarely, come on the market.
[
citation needed
]
The next Jamboree, hosted by Canada in 1983, was named
The Spirit Lives On
to show how Scouting's spirit of international brotherhood could overcome the setback of cancelling the 1979 Jamboree.