OK, let's properly identify this pistol. It is a CZ-27, made in Czechoslovakia under German occupation during World War II. The 'fnh' you undoubtedly are seeing on the slide is NOT 'Fabrique Nationale Herstal' but rather the German code for the Czech factory where that pistol was made. It is not a FN Model 1922, nor a Browning. NCondition is absolutely everything on these pistols, and any special unit markings or rare variations can double or even triple the value to a collector. Please provide more information, and digital pictures if possible, to [email protected] and we will do our best to help you out with an appraisal or possibly even purchase the pistol. Nwww.countrygunsmith.net n.
Serial Number 20236PT211 - 12G A5 Light 12 (2+1), Miroku build from 1986. Fancy blued sides and vented rib. Serial Number 60-21242 - 12G Auto 5 (4 + 1), made in 1906 by FN. ALl FN engraving and original undamaged FN buttplate; not seen in the Browning tables but have some papers from the last owner. The new Baby Browning was nearly a half-inch shorter than the FN Model 1906 and weighed four ounces less. The fact that the new Baby was called a Browning might seem a bit surprising, since John M. Browning had no part in its design.
Now I know what happened to the AntiqueGuns.com crystal ball! How did you get from a Browning Model 22 to a CZ-27? The 'Pistole Modell 27 Kaliber 7.65' was obviously copied directly from the left side of the slide and is the correct marking for a CZ27. At some point someone has misidentified this pistol as a Model 1922 Browning, undoubtedly because of the 'fnh' markings that a wartime CZ27 would show.
Neither the FN Model 1922 or the commercially marked Browning version have the markings 'Model 22' so that makes the correct identification easy.
Hi everybody, this is my first Thread! I'm sixty, french (nobody's perfect!) and owns a few handguns (Python, S&W Mod 13 and 27, 9mm Mauser,.22 Beretta 76, Browning 1906, Sharps Deringers (replica)), along with a Marlin.22, a Browning.22'Tromblon', and an A5 that I just purchased at an auction sale. And this A5 is puzzling me, because there is NO serial # underneath in front of the loading gate (there is only a FN (i.e.
Fabrique Nationale )marking. The only serial number I found was on the barrel: K 9 1 0 8 3. I would appreciate if some of you guys could help me find the manufacturing date and explain why there is no # on the breech. I'm new to the site and I was browsing your topic on Auto 5 sixteen gauges. I've heard alot about the sweet sixteen and I think many people mistakenly call all A5s in 16 gauge sweet sixteens.
Well, I was wondering I have an A5 in 16 with a serial number starting with an X at the begining. I can only remember the first three digits at this time and they are X97XXX.
The information I have come across place this as being manufactured in 1930. Can anyone confirm this. It is not marked sweet sixteen, it does not have a gold trigger and it has a push button safety behind the trigger. It has been in my family all of my life and then some.
I inherited it when my Dad passed away in 1988 and I had a family member who is now an X family member hold on to it. Well, time went on and on and I hadn't even seen it for almost 10 years. My sister went back to her X and got it back for me so I could one day give it to my son.
Well I vaguely remember my father telling me it belonged to his uncle way back and it was the first shot gun I had ever fired or hunted with. I was so young that I think I was just walking in the woods with a gun rather than hunting. Any help on obtaining any information about this gun would be great. The gun is pretty good shape, all original wood. The butt plate has a crack and my x brother in-law had it reblued some years ago, but is more of a family hairloom(?) than anything else, lots of sentinmental value. I'm new to the site and I was browsing your topic on Auto 5 sixteen gauges. I've heard alot about the sweet sixteen and I think many people mistakenly call all A5s in 16 gauge sweet sixteens.
Well, I was wondering I have an A5 in 16 with a serial number starting with an X at the begining. I can only remember the first three digits at this time and they are X97XXX. The information I have come across place this as being manufactured in 1930. Can anyone confirm this. It is not marked sweet sixteen, it does not have a gold trigger and it has a push button safety behind the trigger. It has been in my family all of my life and then some.
I inherited it when my Dad passed away in 1988 and I had a family member who is now an X family member hold on to it. Well, time went on and on and I hadn't even seen it for almost 10 years. My sister went back to her X and got it back for me so I could one day give it to my son. Well I vaguely remember my father telling me it belonged to his uncle way back and it was the first shot gun I had ever fired or hunted with. I was so young that I think I was just walking in the woods with a gun rather than hunting.
Any help on obtaining any information about this gun would be great. The gun is pretty good shape, all original wood.
The butt plate has a crack and my x brother in-law had it reblued some years ago, but is more of a family hairloom(?) than anything else, lots of sentinmental value. Thank you My info says Browning started the a5 in 1931. I use to have an A-5 Buck special in 12 gauge. I'm fairly sure that it was the only gauge it came in.
Well, once upon a time when I was in the Marines and very young I had taken it to my duty station where I planned on hunting with a couple of more senior marines. We were required to keep personal weapons at the base armory and due to the fact that I didn't want every Joe Shmoe fingering it I let one of the guys I was going to hunt with hold onto it for me I believe his name was (Todd Turner).
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He was a Staff Sergeant at the time. Well, the 1st Gulf war broke out, he got deployed with one unit and I with another.
By the time I got back he had a permanent change of station. I ended up talking to him briefly once and asking for it back, but whatya know I never got it back and what a kick in the pants that was. I learned a very hard life leason. It belonged to my dad and it had alot of sentimental value. I inherited it from him one week before I went in the marines when he passed.
I do almost anything to see it again. But twenty years have gone by and It is probably in limbo somewhere. I to am new to this site.
I recently bought myself and A5 and am trying to find out the age, have been to the Browning Site, no help at all, lol. The serial # starts with 2 smaller digits 66 then a space then 5 larger digits 29xxx. The barrel is marked as made by fabrique national in Belgium, the serial # is on the bottom of the receiver in front of the loading gate, the pistol grip is rounded, the safety is behind the trigger guard, the butt plate has FN in the middle and Browning Automatic down the sides. A friend suggested that one of the small 6's might be a g instead, but looked at under a good light with a magnifying glass, I'm sure that they are both 6's. I'm thinking it could be about 1657-58, anyone else have any better idea?