1936 S/42 = "Banner"??? I don't get it...

[Zamo]

Here is a link to a 1936 S/42 that I had bid on, but then got out bid.
S/42 on a certain Auction site

It's a nice Luger, but it has gone out of the range I think it's worth.
Despite all that, is there something about the 1936 and earlier Lugers that I'm missing? I remember an old collector friend of mine mentioned something about some Banner lugers being stamped with military stamps, or perhaps it was the other way around, that some were not stamped with Army stamps but were S/42 instead of Banner...

In the case of this example, it looks like a typical S/42 with Army stamps...I don't know where the Seller gets "Banner" from at all, as I certainly don't see a Mauser banner on it where the S/42 is.

Also, do 1936's command a higher price than others? The seem to, I've been trying to get a nice one for several months now, and they keep drifting up out of what I'm comfortable spending. I realize that the strawing makes it more desirable than the later '37's and later (all blued), is that it?

Just curious.