Really nice broomhandle

[alvin]

Originally Posted by Olle

Wouldn't the "GERMANY" stamp indicate an exported gun, so why do you suspect a German refurbish?

For exporting, exporter also wanted to sell a good price. Compare with those prewar C96, wartime production's milling and fitting quality was relatively low. To sell a better price, enhancing surplus pistols a little bit for exporting was very natural.

The Standard C96, in a seller's words (not this seller) that I totally agree "every kid should have one of these - Mauser Standard C96". Although being common, super nice samples of this variation are very collectible. Those rare 6-shot and 20-shot cannot replace Standard C96's position in a collection -- this was the variation making this type of pistol world famous.

I have gotten mine:

[Olle]

Originally Posted by alvin

For exporting, exporter also wanted to sell a good price. Compare with those prewar C96, wartime production's milling and fitting quality was relatively low. To sell a better price, enhancing surplus pistols a little bit for exporting was very natural.

So when you say "surplus", you're talking about brand new guns that were never issued to the military? Or did the actually refinish and enhance used guns for export?

[alvin]

Originally Posted by Olle

So when you say "surplus", you're talking about brand new guns that were never issued to the military? Or did the actually refinish and enhance used guns for export?

On old dealer catalog, there was a category described as "reconditioned". It's unclear its state before exporting. For this shape, it's at most lightly used even it had been issued in the war.