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GLHTurbo
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Can anyone ID this? I see a "Tomoe" in the center, but can't find anything resembling the entire symbol. It looks like fountain pen tips in the pedals too, possibly?
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TDCTDI
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| Posted: Mon Jun 27, 2016 8:21 am Post subject: Re: ID this symbol? |
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I don't know about fountain pen tips, lm seeing more of a vulva with a flourish.
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Letterman7
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| Posted: Tue Jun 28, 2016 12:22 pm Post subject: Re: ID this symbol? |
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| Might be a tsuba - a Japanese family crest, or just someone's interpretation of a Japanese symbol. Without a context you may never know (like, was it on a storefront or just a random?) |
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hitest
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| Posted: Tue Jun 28, 2016 1:09 pm Post subject: Re: ID this symbol? |
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It's on the back hatch of a splittie- so it's as said Zen family crestish somehow.... Pinterest has depictions of the center tri-bladed emblem.
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GLHTurbo
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| Posted: Tue Jun 28, 2016 4:34 pm Post subject: Re: ID this symbol? |
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It's on the back of my Splittie, yes. It was scraped off or flaked off, and thats adhesive left behind.
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janerick3
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| Posted: Tue Jun 28, 2016 7:25 pm Post subject: Re: ID this symbol? |
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These were multicolored plastic "clings," evolved from the ubiquitous rainbow cling of the late 1970s. They were popular, especially on bay window buses, until the early 2000s...
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| Posted: Tue Jun 28, 2016 7:41 pm Post subject: Re: ID this symbol? |
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| Whatever it is, I believe it is Satanic--------is your bus possessed, by chance? |
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GLHTurbo
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| Posted: Tue Jun 28, 2016 8:25 pm Post subject: Re: ID this symbol? |
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| These were multicolored plastic "clings," evolved from the ubiquitous rainbow cling of the late 1970s. They were popular, especially on bay window buses, until the early 2000s... |
Lol, funny you say that. There's a rainbow on the lower right corner.
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GLHTurbo
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| Posted: Tue Jun 28, 2016 8:26 pm Post subject: Re: ID this symbol? |
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| iowegian wrote: |
| Whatever it is, I believe it is Satanic--------is your bus possessed, by chance? |
I hope not! Giving it nothing but love.
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79SuperVert
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| Posted: Wed Jun 29, 2016 8:55 am Post subject: Re: ID this symbol? |
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Not that I know much about this stuff, but doesn't Google have a search by image function? Can you have it search for anything that looks like that?
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TDCTDI
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| Posted: Wed Jun 29, 2016 9:14 am Post subject: Re: ID this symbol? |
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| GLHTurbo wrote: |
| janerick3 wrote: |
| These were multicolored plastic "clings," evolved from the ubiquitous rainbow cling of the late 1970s. They were popular, especially on bay window buses, until the early 2000s... |
Lol, funny you say that. There's a rainbow on the lower right corner. |
I bet that rainbow was there before the LGBT took over the symbol.
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EverettB
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| Posted: Wed Jun 29, 2016 10:49 am Post subject: Re: ID this symbol? |
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| Not that I know much about this stuff, but doesn't Google have a search by image function? Can you have it search for anything that looks like that? |
Yes, there is but nothing comes up for this image the way it is now.
Maybe if it was cut out from the background you could get some better results.
In the Chrome Browser you can also right click on the image to do a Google Image search
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Letterman7
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| Posted: Wed Jun 29, 2016 2:05 pm Post subject: Re: ID this symbol? |
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Because I'm the curious type and I love a challenge, I recreated the emblem:
And entered that into Google's photo search. It returned nothing. If I could figure out a description it might have searched better, but the keywords I used returned no matching images.
And I was wrong.. a tsuba is a handguard on a sword. A mon is a family crest. |
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| Posted: Wed Jun 29, 2016 3:11 pm Post subject: Re: ID this symbol? |
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I recall similar stickers around the time when white window rubbers and tribal flames were popular, but that one has more of a New Orleans sort of look to it, not really sure why, just how I see it.
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hitest
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| Posted: Wed Jun 29, 2016 6:25 pm Post subject: Re: ID this symbol? |
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Look up Buddhist or Zen emblems or crests- the elements of this sticker pop up. I tried to take a closer look at stuff on Pinterest regarding it- but got blocked by all their site's horshite.
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GLHTurbo
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| Posted: Wed Jun 29, 2016 6:41 pm Post subject: Re: ID this symbol? |
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woah, that's awesome! I should get that made into a sticker for the bus...as long as it's not satantic and all. Nice work.
I'll keep googling.
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Because I'm the curious type and I love a challenge, I recreated the emblem:
And entered that into Google's photo search. It returned nothing. If I could figure out a description it might have searched better, but the keywords I used returned no matching images.
And I was wrong.. a tsuba is a handguard on a sword. A mon is a family crest. |
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kingkarmann
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| Posted: Sun Jul 03, 2016 6:25 pm Post subject: Re: ID this symbol? |
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Isn't that something Rorschach inked?
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| Posted: Sun Jul 03, 2016 7:35 pm Post subject: Re: ID this symbol? |
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| See that symbol in the middle.......its roughly the same as the Ravenswood wine vineyard logo. Google that and read the history of the symbol. Its three ravens claws interlocked. Ray |
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hitest
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| Posted: Sun Jul 03, 2016 8:10 pm Post subject: Re: ID this symbol? |
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I thought they were three commas circling in the same sentence- a big grammar no no... 
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