Zedlavo
Two Pair
I just ran across this posting on Craigslist for swastika poker chips. (I don't know how to post a link) Whats the story?
So he's collects Natzi stuff or does he collect goofy Keizer helmets too? By the way my iPhone won't auto spell "Natzi" or "Swastika". Funny.A guy I work with collects old German military items.
Yes I knew these weren't Natzi chips I was just wondering about their origin. There's a store in a small town near here where a owner had painted swastikas all around the his store on Main Street. This was in the early 1900s. It's a native good luck symbol. He even left them up during WWII because our county is surrounded by Indian reservations so the locals knew what it meant. As you can imagine it's covered up now.Paranoid chips typically go for $0.25 to $0.50 per chip.
These chips are not Nazi memorabilia. They predate WWII, though perhaps not the early stages of the third reich. It isn't impossible that there is an early connection. Germany was not an "evil actor" to Americans in the 1930's. But this symbol is older than this by far.
DrStrange
My grandfather said before it was rotated 45 degrees it meant friendship and it's on some of our old family photo albums and those are long before ww2...my great grandfather was born here and my grandfather fought in ww2.
Take that for what it's worth...I've never been able to verify it.
I believe this was an old Indian symbol before it was used by the Nazis.
It's a native good luck symbol.
I don't really want them either but I don't think there's anything wrong with having them. Kinda cool. Unless they're owned by the type of person that is a holocaust denier, then not so cool. How long until someone tries to make a commemorative crazy ass dictator/ruler set. Vlad the Impaler on the .25c chip. Pol Pot on the $1. Stalin on the $5. Genghis Khan on the $25. Hitler on the $100. Giant inlays.but personally I wouldn't want them.
I have an old USPCC "Official Rules of Card Games" book that came out in the late 20s/early 30s that advertises swastika chips (amongst other shapes). While the symbol was used for the Nazi party in the early 20s knowledge of its political use here in the States at that time would have been nil.
Same with the Hitler mustache. People used to use that style a lot. Now it's considered offensive because of the obvious visual relationship.Yeah, without looking it up I have always known the swastika symbol as older than Germany by far and was used for the symbol of a few things, none evil until the Nazis adopted it.
And by the way @Zedlavo , my iPhone spells both with out problem, though I use thev Swype keyboard do that may be the difference.
Yeah, Hitler was a dickhead...Same with the Hitler mustache. People used to use that style a lot. Now it's considered offensive because of the obvious visual relationship.
Hitler and his Nazi party ruined a lot of stuff... Other than the obvious.