Atte,
please don't call Mauser Parabellum repros.
The Parabellum production ended in 1947 when French army destroyed the firm; Mauser "started again" the production in the 1970 up to 1986.
Mr. Weiss, at the period parabellum production responsible, saved the parabellum blue prints used during WWII.
In the 1970, Mauser engineers decided that these blue prints were not valuable without the 1940 tools. Mauser made a decision to buy the tools used by Swiss for their production.
This is why the first production is very close to the 1929 model.
A few years after (1973) they decided to change the design, more similar to the 1906 model.
In the meantime Mauser began a production of commemoratives models finalised to commemorate the most important models and contracts.
I hope this helps.
Ciao
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