FN,
Yeah, you guys got me. I guess I'm not clear about tau-delt's post. My current hold-open is most likely a Simson replacement either used to repair my pistol at some point or sent to the Mauser factory as an overrun. But wouldn't Mauser still have produced a numbered original hold-open for my pistol? Or would that part have been omitted from the production cycle because they had a quantity of Simson hold-opens on hand for use in assembly? I know we'll never know the answer to these questions as they relate to my pistol, but if I did have any intention of selling it -- is it possible that my metal parts might have been all original from the factory but non-matching (because of the hold-open and the Simson overruns) and therefore not as valuable?
Regards,
Sapper
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