Missed this one because I remembered the end date wrong. Could not bid this high anyway, so not much regret. Pistols are not unlike women, pretty or not pretty does matter a little bit for some men.
Regarding the condition. Here is an analog. Feudalism Asian Emperors usually had a few hundred concubines. It's really a burden for His Majesty sleeping with all those women, so it was comon that many of them did not even see the Emperor in their lifetime. So, this Mauser Pocket played a unfortunate concubine's role, and the owner was the Emperor -- when he had many guns, it's a burden to carry all of them to the range.
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