[John Farrell, Charter Member #33]

My guess is, because of the fact that in 1932-1933 the country was in a more severe "great recession" than we are now - when the hammer that was purchased some time in the distant past suffered a broken handle - the Remington management decreed the hammer handle would not be replaced and that the workman, who was lucky to have a job doing anything, had to hit the stamp die by holding the hammer head in his hand. And being that the hammer was a ball peen to begin with, and the workman got his revenge by hitting the die with the ball end of the hammer, the result is the lightly indented lettering of the otherwise quality die stamp. And the history of poor management decisions follows the firm to this very day.