Help with swastika stickpin please

[alikat]

I just bought this pin, but didn't see the detail on it in the sellers pics. I have never seen one like this before. Does anyone have any ideas please? The reverse has what looks like ST??NG under the pin. Could it be a US nazi pin? Finish in the pics looks more yellow (tarnished?) that what i see, but I don't want to clean it.

[Adrian Stevenson]

I think American but with no Nazi connotations. Native American I think. Odds are the marking is "Sterling"

Cheers, Ade.

[alikat]

Thanks Ade,

You are probably right, I forgot about the native American option - I had seen similar symbols of old rugs in a museum here.

[M18922]

just a quick question but how does native americans have to do with the swastica.
I know its a ancient form of a cross. sorry for being an idiot :P .
cheers

[alikat]

I believe it is something to do with air/wind; they use the cross in this orientation and reversed. It is also popular in the Hindu religion.

[SteveR]

It was silver tourist jewelry sold on route 66 in the 30's at several trading posts through New Mexico and Arizona.

[Walkwolf]

I agree with the above comments, but it is interesting that it has a knurled pin.
Perhaps this was a common feature in the 1920's and 30's...........

I suppose that any and all swastika emblems in Allied countries would have
been banned or changed after WWII had begun - such as the US 45th
Infantry shoulder flash, which had previously been a swastika.

( There used to be a 'Berlin, Ontario' before WWI - It's now 'Kitchener' )

[Rudolf Karl]

It's not surprising to see that emblem almost anywhere in the world ... less the name "Swastika" however.
In Korea I saw a little hut with one covering the entire side of the wall. I was told that a fortune teller/healer
lived there.

I recently read that the only place in the world that there were no ancient forms found was Australia. Any truth
to that?

BTW ... I do like the one above and would put it in my cow skull.

Rudy

[Eric Zentner]

BTW ... I do like the one above and would put it in my cow skull.

Rudy


I have lots of cow skulls that need them as well.

Eric

[debbi082009]

its good we have wiki. Here is the complete story about swastika.

Swastika - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia