Mine is a fairly unremarkable wartime production Mauser in 9mm. What's most important to me is that my father brought it home from WWII, along with a British M&P in .38 S&W. He traded a carton of cigarettes to a British NCO for both guns during the war. They were the first handguns I ever fired, and are a reminder of his service and what was accomplished, at great cost, by his generation.