Baby Browning Serial Numbers. Your belgian made (fn) baby browning was made in 1967. In 1975 browning began using the two (2) letter code system (located in the middle of the serial number) for determining the year of manufacture.
Most early browning serial numbers contained no date or model information and can not be dated using this system. Smith and wesson serial number date of manufacture j frame. In 1975 browning began using the two (2) letter code system (located in the middle of the serial number) for determining the year of manufacture.
The small pocket pistol was first patented in 1905 and production started in 1906. 11 rows john browning had contracts with colt and f.n. 8 = year of manufacture (1958)
Although saive was the inventor the gun, it was marketed as a browning (jmb passed away years earlier in 1926). It kicks to much with 2 3/4 baby magnums. I cannot find the serial number anywhere online;
It was simply known as the “browning.25 caliber automatic pistol.”. There were over 500,000 made from 1931 to 1983. I have a baby browning.25 that i inherited from my grandfather.
New photographs are inserted below for the receiver serial. You might check out the blue book of gun values as at one time i beleive they had dates and serial number ranges. The pistol was meant as an upgrade/improvement to the 1905/06 vest pocket.
Gun s serial number fn 1. Most early browning serial numbers contained no date or model information and can not be dated using this system. The fn baby was first introduced in 1931, the result of a design by dieudonne saive.
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