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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I sent them an inquiry. Not saying I will hear back, but I did indicate that other people, not just myself, were awaiting them reinstating the picture. That's just ridiculous, and shows either horrid automation issues (which should be fixed IMMEDIATELY) or erroneous human deletion (which should be fixed IMMEDIATELY). Either way, they need to fix it IMMEDIATELY!
This kind of stuff just rubs me wrong (can you tell?). A cotton-pickin' TOKEN for goodness' sake. Grrr!
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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I suspect it's automatic. They might have a crawler that scans for patterns and kicks out this symbol. Image hosting does the same for photos with an abundance of skin tones. Joking aside, I had no problems with those pre-Nazi poker chips. I'd be happy to host that image for you--just send it my way.  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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That's very nice of you, DV  You're probably right about it being automatic.. unfortunately, that means they can't differentiate between something that is meant to be bad v. something that isn't. Apologies for the mini-rant last night. Arbitrary decision-making based on erroneous or incomplete information is one of my pushee-buttons  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
2669 Posts |
They actually responded to the inquiry, saying they would review and put the pictures back up if they were removed in error. And it looks like they did! Hooray!
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Oh good, because that was silly.  |
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Valued Member
 United States
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Wow!! You guys are too much and I thank you for it quite sincerely. I've been a bit busy and was just going to let the issue drop. Decided to take a separate scan of the "other" chip and saw my original was back for some reason. We may just end up popping a few of these up on ebay and seeing what happens. We've got a few dozen actually so why not? Thanks again everyone. Clembo |
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Valued Member
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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 Dunno...they don't exactly provide documentation to that degree. If you ask me, attributing this to the older "luck symbol" is more plausible than Nazi party poker games.  It's probably easier to sell "Nazi poker chips" than generics from the 20s. But what do I know...I'm hardly a poker chip expert. |
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Valued Member
United States
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From what I've read the good luck chips tended to be made of clay. These are not. Looking at it from the edge they look like the ones we have. Hey, I could be totally wrong as well. Not something I delve into on a daily basis. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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From the ones I saw, they were either the clay ones or they were bakelite like you mentioned earlier. BOTH types were pre-WWII. I think DV is right and those people you linked to either just assumed their provenance and/or didn't do their due diligence. Honestly, there are more pre-WWII swastika items out there than WWII era ones, simply because that symbol was in use for far longer prior, than that short WWII time period.
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