I found the hammer in a barn. Have you ever seen something similar?

I think it would be for marking lumber on the end. Creepy...

I agree to both parts of Tim's post.

You are lucky to hold history in your hand, nice collector piece.

It looks like it started as an autobody hammer and somebody modified it to do some marking.

Maybe it's 55 years old, maybe it's 5 days old - hard to verify and establish any collectibility on it.

Not that's pretty much spot on for a log marking tool. Highly unlikely to be a modified auto body tool

I can confirm that this hammer is over 60 years ... I found it in my grandfather's barn... but I could never talk about it because he died before I found the hammer.

The swastika is a verrrrrrry old design, thousands of years old to be exact, and was used frequently by many countries until WWII. The design has had a stigma attached to it since Hitler used it .

You'll notice the one side is the number 22 not SS as in the hitler regime and ,as Bigundoctor said, the swastica like design is many thousands of yeasr old. I too suspect just an unfortunate coincidence.Yuck.. Log brand-lots of them around. Hit the end of the log with it on the end the scaler is going to see...

I'd go with the last two posts as well. They're saying that it predates WWII to a time when the swastika was simply a clever graphic. The other end certainly looks like a '22' to me as well, not the two lightning bolts to form 'SS'.

Besides, what would the SS need with a log marking hammer?

Looks more like one S and one 2 on the end. Hard to tell though on the screen.

I agree with the prior posts. I've handled a pair of spurs with solid silver swastikas on them. The maker died in the mid 30's just a graphic then, now it is in effect the mark of the beast

The symbol that is now considered to be a swatstica was used for good luck prior to Hitler.
Triump made a trap with it on the pan.
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