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It has caught the eye of more than craftsmen; the Smithsonian Institution will include the hammer in an exhibit this spring, and one will soon ,be on display at the Mariner’s Museum in Newport News.
Although sales of the hammer have skyrocketed since it was first introduced last year, like most un<*hriventional ideas there were years of work and thought behind it. The story actually begins when Mr. Von Fange was a eft liege student at Old Dominion University.
His hobby was rummaging through flea markets and antique stores for old tools, and one day the elderly proprietor of one store showed him what looked like a brass-headed claw hammer. Mr. Von Fange was fascinated, but the njan told him the hammer was not for sale.
Determined to find one of the unusual hammers, the young craftsman kept looking. While at a rummage sale in/ Norfolk, he was asked what he was looking for. After describing the hammer, the man told him, “Meet me at the corner of Granby St. at 3 p.m. — and bring
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