Help Identify Wood Chisels with Odd Asterisk Markings Antique Tools

[rusty]

One of the Hardware dealers magazines had a section on Worth tools, so I suspect it was a line available to hardware stores in general...
(Couldn't read it, google's silly snippit view)

Strange how we havn't seen this mark in years, then it shows up on multiple tools...

[Bill Houghton]

PS&W were good tools.  Were the Worth tools just re-labeled, or a lower quality?