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This very razor is also listed as "a rare 'Swastika' razor" in the same book, so it might just be a collector who already knows it's not a nazi...

It seems it was.. at least with the native Americans.

Native American Basketball team 1909

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/9f/Native_American_basketball_team_crop.jpg


Boy...

The swastika has nothing to do with Germans or Hitler or Nazis.. It is a very very old Hindu symbol.

The word swastika is derived from the Sanskrit word svastika (in Devanagari स्वस्तिक), meaning...

"Henry Sears & Co. Prussia - c 1865-1879
Henry Sears & Son Prussia c 1883-1897

Founded in 1865 as Henry Sears & Company in Rockford, Illinois.
The business became the Henry Sears manufacturing...