Maybe you have to look at why factories stamp barrels in the first place. There’s a reason why that information is there and I’m sure it has more to do with federal laws than it does for advertising and the entertainment of historians. Maybe the stamp in itself was more important than the accuracy of its information. I’m just spit ballin’ here but maybe it had something to do with things like taxes and protecting patents than it actually had to do with where the part was made. Maybe in that context Savage didn’t give a second thought to a Utica stamped barrel going out of Chicopee Falls. It’s just we who might be imposing a different kind of imprtance on it.
