Mauser "2-digit"?

[phillyny]

I was thumbing through my gun books and found the description as "Mauser 2 Digit Date" in the 2008 Edition of the "Standard Book of Firearms" by Dan Shideler. It fits the description perfectly. He states "There were approximately 2000 manufactured for sale to Nazi political groups." He says the 2 digit date stamp was the year of manufacture (either 41 or 42). 1942 doesn't appear anywhere on the gun. Sorry for the fuzzy photos but I needed to reduce the resolution to get them down to the 200KB picture size limit on this forum. Thanks for the help!

Originally Posted by skeeter4206

I am curious what you mean by the mauser two digit. Is it the fact the year on the top says "42" instead of "1942". And if the two digits went into the army saying "42", is there a commercial style mauser that says "1942" on the top of the gun?