rusellt violated forum rule #6/ maybe

[russellt]

8/ i changed my avatar to a 1909 excelsior shoe company boy scout club of america good luck token. the reverse has a swastika with various good luck charms in the crooks of the cross. i hope i have not offended any body of the jewish persuasion as this was not my intention.just a cool token that not many people even knew existed before i posted it .. peace yall

[greg]

Cool I found one just like yours a few years ago

[Nitro 54]

You can't see the detail in your avatar anyway Russ. stretcher: stretcher: to small, have you been taking mini picture posting from Bowser lol lol

[Dimeman]

The emblem was a symbol of good luck and pre-ceded Hitlers use of it, also as good luck, for his mission.
Hitler used a variation, as he took out the small tokens in each of the crooks.

[giant056]

They made several different variations of that token, here's one that I found last summer.

[Judy]

no worries here, Hitler just made that logo = dirty is all ... most of us know that

[coinnut]

I visited many sites to get an idea of how many different swastika's there are. There are many and they bend the cross both ways. The swastika was used by almost everyone, even the Jewish, but usually have some added features. Also the colors are not there like in Hitler's time. I am not Jewish, so I can not speak for anyone who is. I personally do not get offended by that image because I realize it was done at a better time in history, long before Hitler unleashed his fury and his version of it. I hate to see the good times erased because of some nut. I would love to hear from some Jewish people on this and why (if it does) offend them, as it is not from the WW2 era. I'm 50/50 on it. The rebel can be viewed the same way and so can probably a hundred other things.

[Judy]

Ditto coinnut!

[russellt]

cool . i know davy crocket had it embroidered on some of his gear. i wonder how long it took the BSA to stop using that symbol? all because of an ill mannered bavarian corporal.. just thought id test the waters..

[jkress]

I found one too...

This last summer.

[mike l]

Cool piece of history, never saw a boy scout token like that before.

[Jeff (or)]

For myself, I don's see anything wrong.

[wingmaster]

I found one of those as well, it was at least 12 showing a quarter at 8 I almost stopped digging for it.

[BlackZ51Vett]

Actually, that symbol was the symbol of Good Luck before it was associated with The Idiot.