German Stamp Perfin Swastika

Hello! I bought one auction a bunch of estonian stamps and I found one german stamp on it with swastika perfin on it. I could not find any information on it. Can someone help me with it? Is it rare or not?

Hi. This is the first time I have seen this pattern. Being on a "Germania Head" issue is well before the Third Reich era. The swastika was also a symbol of good luck before it became infamously known as the Nazi symbol. I am wondering if it was used by some company as their logo. I would also like to know who used this pattern.

Hi. This is the first time I have seen this pattern. Being on a "Germania Head" issue is well before the Third Reich era. The swastika was also a symbol of good luck before it became infamously known as the Nazi symbol. I am wondering if it was used by some company as their logo? I would also like to know who used this pattern.

This is not a Nazi swastika but a Buddhist symbol.

Randy,
I do not recall seeing this as such, prior.
As far as I know, it was an indian "Jain" symbol.
Happy to be corrected.

Jain symbol.

It appears to be the perfin of the Hintz Factory in Berlin. They are still in business today (spelled "Hinz"), manufacturing office products.

Nicely solved Postmaster !

Swastika symbol found on...........
Jain Postage stamp (India) 3 rupees
embossed on Rudyard Kipling's book cover
China postage stamp 1897 bean goose $2
Tibet Mount Everest Exhibition stamp 1924
Suitcase case travel sticker Hilton Hotel Mexico El Paso, Texas.
War shield , Arms of Leonard Chamberlayne 1394

and page border design, postage Stamp Album, printed Great Britain, circa 1920.

https://www.thoughtco.com/the-histo...tika-1778288

https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-29644591

https://www.historyextra.com/period...ka-svastika/

https://www.hinduamerican.org/blog/...he-swastika/

Don

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It also appeared on the fuselage of a British biplane in the first world war as it's pilots good luck symbol.

I have seen it in buildings built in the 20's or earlier as well.

Interesting. I have some ancient Roman pottery with the swastika on it. The Nazis adopted this as a symbol and reversed it so you can usually tell which is German Nazi and which is the ancient symbol.

Also, the swastika was used as a symbol for the Finnish Air Force beginning in 1918, predating Hitler's completely unrelated 1920 adoption of it.

In 2017, the Finns quietly retired their usage of the swastika.

The swastika (called manji in Japanese) is frequently used to indicate Buddhist temples on Japanese maps.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E5%8D%8D

And here you can see it on the noren (door curtains) at Chingo-dô, one of the buildings in the Sensô-ji temple complex in Tokyo.