It is a nice looking commercial banner. These pistols were sold to anyone besides the army who were able / allowed to purchase pistols. This includes private sales, police organisations, political organizations and probably some small exports here and there.
42 on a commercial version just means that they used a 42-dated receiver, that was probably left over from the military production run (which ended in 1942). Chances are that it was assembled and sold anywhere between 1942 and 1945.
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