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up to 250 euros for an “authentic Nazi iron” which is actually not so much


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Second-hand product buying and selling platforms have become a world where you can find practically any product regardless of its theme and even its age. In fact, many collectors feed their repertoires using this type of platform, although many sellers take advantage of it to try to scam users by decorating the stories behind each item to make them seem more attractive.

One of the many cases is that of old and carbon irons. Those that adorn Spanish chimneys and that can be found by dozens in Wallapop. The price is usually around 40 euros on the websites consulted, but some reach 250.

The most expensive are precisely those that have a swastika that can make you think of a swastika.

And with the symbol and seniority, the business would already be: “Authentic Nazi Iron”says one of the milanuncios.com ads.

According to his seller, from Viladecans, his iron, which he shows on a wicker mat, “comes from Germany” and “was given to soldiers in order to iron their uniforms” during World War II. The announcement is surprising, without a doubt, although it is hard to imagine those soldiers carrying an iron plate in their rucksacks, whose weight can be around four kilos, just to have a smooth uniform. That without counting on the base, also made of iron, which usually accompanies this type of gadget.

But there is more. For 90 euros an advertiser sells his as «classic iron plate with the swastika or Nazi swastika and Spanish manufacturing». Its seller also claims that it was used on the German market during the 1930s and 1940s.

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They are not the only advertisements for Nazi plates, although in reality it is not such a thing. Those exhibited on these platforms date from approximately 1900 – 1910, according to Carlos Uzkiano, one of the greatest plate collectors old from Europe, and they are of Spanish manufacture, by Unión Cerrajera Mondragón, to be exact.

In short: they are neither Nazi nor German. The swastika was used in many countries, not only in Europe but throughout the world without having any relationship with Nazism, since it is much older and its connotations were positive. However, after its use by the Nazis, it was turned 45 degrees and its decorative and architectural use was abandoned in other societies.

Uzquiano agrees that the supposed past that sellers attribute to their products is the reason for their high price, “exaggerated” in his opinion. The normal, given its state of conservation, it would be between 20 and 40 euros and to reach the figures that these sellers ask for, they should be quite exclusive pieces, and this is not the case with these.

More than 1,200 old plates

Uzquiano has been collecting old plates for 50 years, ever since his family’s farmhouse in the Basque Country burned down at the age of 15 and, without knowing why, he saved two plates from the fire. Since then he has not stopped acquiring new pieces, from all the countries that can be imagined until reaching the nearly 1,200 plates that currently make up his collection.

On June 26, the exhibition that has been held for six months at the Orduña museum ended with some of its most relevant pieces. He assures that unique pieces can even reach the value of a flat. “The sky is the top”, he affirms resoundingly. Those cited above, he confirms, are not.

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