Howard Hill Longbowmen Patch

New Hill Longbowmen Patches

September 17, 2009

As the supply of the Hill Longbowmen patches (see below) began to run out, I made arrangements for a new supply. There were two improvements I felt could be made... the first patch was 4" and proved to be a bit large for some nice applications, especially on the front of a hat, and somehow, I missed the fact that on the patch Howard's hair was brown, not black. For the re-order, I specified a 3" patch and asked that the hair be changed. These things were done and the patches are now here. Unfortunately, over the last two years, the price of the patches went up a bit, postage has gone up a lot and envelopes went up as well. The new patches will be $8 each, shipped. I still have about 20 of the old ones, and they will also be available until gone at $8. Here's a pic of both:

I only ordered 100 of the new patches (last time was 200). I'm kind of watching to see how fast these sell out. If they go within a year, I think I'll look at doing a different patch (different art work) as a 2010 patch. We'll see how that works out....

Dick

Past History of Howard Hill Patches

Years ago, there was a patch offered by Howard Hill Archery. It was an image of a longbowman at full draw. Eventually, it was dropped in favor of a new patch that featured an elephant, commemorating Howard's killing of an elephant with a longbow. Eventually, this patch also was dropped by Howard Hill Archery when the company that made them went out of business and they were unable to obtain a satisfactory image from a new company. There have been no patches available for some years. I obtained permission from Howard Hill Archery to work with an emblem company to have a new patch created, to be used for members of the Howard Hill Longbowmen internet group. We chose to duplicate the oldest patch. I made a real effort to locate one of these original patches, but they had been discontinued so long ago that we were unable to do so. I worked with the emblem company, Stadri Emblems, to create the new one.

Here are pictues of the old emblem, and of the new one:

These new patches are available to members of the group (see "Subscribing to the Howard Hill Longbowmen email List" ). They are $8, postage included. Orders should be sent to:

rwightman@mindspring.com

At the same time I was working with the Stadri company to make our patch available, I was asked by Craig Ekin at Howard Hill Archery to develop a new master for the old HH Archery elelphant patch, so that it, too, would be available again. Through the Stadri company, I did this. Here are pictures of the old elephant patch and the artwork for the new one. (At this time I do not have an example of the actual new patch available... should have one soon.)

This elephant patch is available direct from Howard Hill Archery.

This was a fun project and now these colorful patches are again available. Here is a picture of the Longbowmen patch I put on a hat. They're kind of large for hat application, but what the heck, I've got a big head...

Dick Wightman