A curious thing to find on a screwdriver...

[Scouse]

I bought a perfect pattern screwdriver at a car boot sale a couple of weeks ago, no make on it and it was plenty rusty. The scales were wrecked so I have just removed them to fit new ones I'll knock up from some scrap ABW.

No funny business up to now, until I took a wire brush to the powdery rust which had formed under the old wood scales, at which point this emerged from the gloom...

Any thoughts?

 

[Chrispy]

Could it be a German war production mark?

 

[jimi43]

A lot of the Perfect handle screwdrivers were made in Germany and are sometimes known as German Pattern screwdrivers.

That being said...the Swastika was only briefly, but notoriously associated with the Nazi party.

In fact...it has been around for much longer and actually means "lucky object" in Sanskrit!

Jim

 

[Chrispy]

There you are then a lucky screw driver, with a new lease of life!

 

[Tom K]

Buffum Tool Company?

 

[Scouse]

On reflection, I think Chrispy and Jim have hit the nail on the head, that it is likely a production mark from the war years or just before. I wondered about Buffum tools, but I'm not sure this was their sort of thing, and it wasn't in a place, i.e. completely hidden from view, that a trademark would be found.

T'was a bit of a shock though! :shock:

 

[alan2001]

it is almost certainly from around 4000BC. and if it's from the Samarra Toolmakers of Sheffield it'll be worth a bob or two on 'Cash in the Attic'.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swastika#A ... cal_record

 

[Tom K]

Has the image been reversed? coz that looks like an anti clockwise swastika which would not be the Nazi version.

 

[CHJ]

Has the image been reversed? coz that looks like an anti clockwise swastika which would not be the Nazi version.

I think some needs to go to Specsa----s and the No. 22 reads true on my monitor.

 

[Tom K]

(homer)

 

[Shrubby]

More likely made in India or simply using the asian lucky symbolism
My 1930's German tools have the DRGM design registration mark - nothing more sinister
Matt

 

[jimi43]

More likely made in India or simply using the asian lucky symbolism
My 1930's German tools have the DRGM design registration mark - nothing more sinister
Matt

I have been thinking about this...and the Nazis weren't exactly hiding their symbolism....

...so I think if it were made to tweek the engine of a Panzerkampfwagen...it would have been emblazened in a more obvious place.... :wink:

Jim

 

[alan2001]

I think when the '22' is given a good wire-brushing it'll eventually show up as 'SS'; and Scouse should come clean and show us the rest of his grandad's wartime memorabilia.

 

[Vann]

Adolf's personal screwdriver maybe...

Cheers, Vann. :lol:

 

[Benchwayze]

A lot of the Perfect handle screwdrivers were made in Germany and are sometimes known as German Pattern screwdrivers.

That being said...the Swastika was only briefly, but notoriously associated with the Nazi party.

In fact...it has been around for much longer and actually means "lucky object" in Sanskrit!

Jim

Isn't the swa$tika also a sign of Peace, when drawn the other way around; I.e., The points facing to the left.
Or is that a myth?
John

 

[DTR]

Isn't the swa$tika also a sign of Peace, when drawn the other way around; I.e., The points facing to the left.

I thought so too, but wikipedia seems to think different.

 

[Benchwayze]

well I suppose if you look at the swa$tika from the obverse side of a flag it is' frack to bunt'!