Wish I could double-check. It’s on the other side of the country from where I live these days!

I believe the catalog is from 1906. So not sure if early Austrian fascism had made it over by steam ship and spread thousands of kilometers across the country before the automobile.

But it was less than 10 years before the resurrection of the Klan, so that was certainly brewing.

Just like the swastika was fucking everywhere for decades before Hitler usurped it. I’ve got an early 1900s Sears catalog with swastika watches, pins, clocks. All when Hitler was basically a tween.

Point being: Fascists always steal culture, they never create it.