Since s/n 103431 dates to June 11, 1945, that production figure would date your pistol to possibly April, 1946. (Some of Huon's other books covering MAB pistols, such as Les Pistolets Automatiques Francais, may also be useful.) Medlin & Huon argue that immediate post-war MAB D production for the French military was over 1,400 pistols a month. Your best avenue may be to point to Eugene Medlin and Jean Huon's book French Service Handguns 1858-2004, pp. In a summary of the French police material, MAB is said to have claimed to have restarted the s/n in 1945. Your description of the s/n appears to be of a first series s/n (the MAB D s/n series was restarted post-WWII). however they started up the factory and used left over parts. when I read the Milled cut out and the serial number range I was thinking French Unique NOT the French MAB.
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