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It comes with a very old interarms manual and german parabellum instruction manual in a plain cardboard box.
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Ah, this resembles the pistols that came from Russian storage and were refurbished in Germany for companies like Frankonia who subsequently sold them through their chain of stores and mail order business.
These are very good restorations and make for excellent (almost too good) shooters.
They were indeed delivered in Europe in a plain card board box, with 1 magazine and a Mauser Parabellum manual.
Interarms also offered a batch of excellent pistols for sale to Mauser in the late 1970s, early 1980s. I will look up that document, must have it somewhere. Interarms bought and sold so many pistols between 1960 and 1997 that it is almost impossible to determine where and when these pistols showed up. Many have been in storage for years. Russia had loads and loads of them, other Eastern-Block countries must have had their share of supplies and also the Scandinavian countries had them in their inventories for decades.