Factory reworked guns are supposed to have lower value than original ones. But I agree with Vlim, they're not same with Waffenfabrik USA products.... especially many years later. Here is an example:
Let's look at the Mauser refurbishing from a different angle. It's not unlike those 1920 reworked C96s, or postwar commercial Red 9s, or R.F.V marked reworks.... God knows where they found those parts, they put them together, renumbered them, changed the configuration (we call it a "variation"), may even relining the bore (!) and sold them domestically or internationally. Those are collectibles today.
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