<div>Your'e right it doesn't look like a triskelion, especially the ones with feet lol. But so far that's the closest I've come. Mercedes didn't form till the 1900's and they seem to indicate that they just came up with the symbol themselves that it was not taken from a historical source. </div>
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<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 10/6/09, <b class="gmail_sendername">Stacie Larson</b> <<a href="mailto:csrpnt@yahoo.com">csrpnt@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:</span>
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<div>I didn't know Mercedes made steins. ;)<br><br>The arms aren't bent, so it doesn't look like a triskelion (since I live in the land of the triskele now, it was my first thought). Mostly, it just looks decorative to me, but I'm no expert.<br>
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<b><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">From:</span></b> Marcolo DelMare <<a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:marcolobronzethunder@gmail.com" target="_blank">marcolobronzethunder@gmail.com</a>><br>
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<b><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sent:</span></b> Tuesday, October 6, 2009 11:01:30 AM<br></span><b><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Subject:</span></b> [Moo] Fwd: a question about a beer stein<br></font>
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<div>I sent this question a few moments ago and it bounced because for some reason I attached 4 copies of the jpeg image unintentionally. This mundane friend of mine Steve collects vintage and medieval beer steins. I don't have the knowlege to answer his quesiton with any certainty. It doesn't look religious to me but I thought perhaps somone in the Barony would know more about it. I looked at heraldry and found many 5, 6, 8 and even more pointed stars but could not find a 3 pointed star. Not being a herald it might be called something else and that's why I didn't find it listed under stars.</div>
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<div><em>- is this 3 pointed star - religious symbol?<br></em><span class="gmail_quote"><em><span style="FONT-SIZE: larger"><font size="1">PS: THIS COPPER STEIN IS FROM BOHEMIA AND IS FROM THE 1800'S-- WAY BEFORE THE MODERN WIND POWER VAINES WERE MADE</font></span><br>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><em><b>Stephen Lee Smith</b><span style="FONT-SIZE: 20pt"></span></em></p>
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