I am finding some weird things lately

[OutBack Duo]

Last week I found a Soviet 50 Kopeks coin and now yesterday I find this. I was detecting a modern park near St. Louis when I dug this up, it was about 3" down. It had a small ring on top for a chain to go through but I took it off so I could get a good scan of it. Any Ideas of why I would find this in a park in St Louis?

 

[nhbenz]

SD, thats absolutely true. However, with the coloring and setting (with the laurel around it and the bird, likely a condor) I believe this was meant to represent the Nazi party... I don't believe it was military and the non-military pins weren't made to the same high standards, so I'm guessing its not WWII era... else the paint wouldn't have survived.

 

[Michigan Badger]

The swastika appeared on many items prior to Germany's use of it during the WWII era.

I once saw an old (ca. 1910) floor lamp with a large swastika on it's base.

Badger

 

[knapper]

wow i saw that in the movie "BLUES BROTHERS" WHEN THEY JUMPED INTO THE WATER

 

[nhbenz]

MB, very true... even our own U.S. 45th Infantry (organized reserves) used the emblem from 1923 to early 1939. This item, however, is certainly designed in the Nationalist-Socialist (Nazi) pattern... but as BMike pointed out, it is not correct for the period it suggests... its more modern.

 

[Aguila]

If it is modern, could it be from a medal worn by a KKK member? They are known to have rallies in parks sometimes. Just a thought. Glad you found it and not me...