Hi, Doug. For C96, I confirm that "Far East" does have huge amount of them, rack after rack in the museums, but almost none of those could be classified as rare (if I don't count some special non-factory markings). Probably the only exception was a few factory engraved ones, but the engraving patterns were seen before. They do carry tons of "one-of-a-kind" hand-made C96s, but those were not Mauser.
Regarding 9x25, there are a few on US market recently. I believe those 9x25 were made by Mauser for South American market before 1910. For some reason, US gun market is like a magnet which attracted many guns from other places. For example, PIA just sold a nice Argentina LRH with matching shoulder stock, if it were not marked so on its magazine well, who would know its provenance.
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