Originally Posted by
satbuilder
I once had a roofing hammer from my grandfather. Hammer on one side, hatchet on the other. He came over from Austria in the 1880's. The hammer had what was then a good luck symbol carved into the handle, which, today would be considered improper.
If that symbol to which you refer was prominent in the late-30s/early 40s in Germany, yeah, I guess so!
The hammer: sounds like something similar to the tool Harrison Ford is using at the end of "Presumed Innocent".
DD