tom h

Kyrie, I consider the St. Etien arms & cycles marking as well as the later Stoeger and Abercrombie marked Mausers, retailers markings. Even if these were applied by the manufacturer, which is not a proven fact, I don't consider these much different, from the current importers markings on the current crop of E German & Russian reworks. The only major difference is that the earlier markings were placed on new matching pistols for sale to the general public to promote the retailer, rather than by government import requirement and in much lower numbers.