I also have a 42 with a commercial banner toggle. It's numbered in the military style. This gun is in mint condition, and has a side plate with a blued trigger bar. It does not appear to have ever been refinished.
This Mauser may be one assembled and sold by Mauser factory workers for sale to GIs just at the end of the war. It's possible that it was batch salt blued for a uniform appearance.
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 Igitur si vis pacem, para bellum -
- Therefore if you want peace, prepare for war.
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