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Ted, Without knowing how long the 1914 PO8 has been in your family, it is quite possiable that your pistol was captured during WW2 in it's present condition and the purist amoung us would urge you to leave every thing, just as is. The S/42 (as well as 42 or any Mauser waffenamp) on an unnumbered barrel, indicates to me an armour's spare barrel. So your WW1 barrel may have been replaced sometime after 1934 at a lower level facility, than the Mauser factory. This is also probably when the sear bar was exchanged. Most collectors would probably attempt to find the correct era Mauser matching part here, but with the WW2 replacement barrel, your PO8 will never be considered Original Matching, and therefore would have a lessor value than one that is. Tom H.