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Herb,
They are engraved (pantographed). Look at the uniform rounded ends of the lines in the letters. It was done with a very find cutter, fed slowly to minmize the swirl pattern. The oxidation on this gun and the lighting further masks the swirling so that it is not visible at all in the photo.
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