The 'Sweet Sixteen' is a very specific submodel of the Browning Auto-5. Although many people refer to ALL 16ga A5's as 'Sweet Sixteen,' that is not correct. There was a standard-weight 16ga, and the Sweet Sixteen which is some 10 ounces lighter. Your gun is a Sweet Sixteen Auto-5 made in 1962. sales@countrygunsmith.net
Browning's USA website does not provide date of manufacture information for Belgium made Brownings. They only provide this data for US manufacture and Japanese made.
1924
This was made in 1949
Could you look and see if there is a prefix letter,or a number letter combination prefix to your serial number?this would aid greatly in establishing the year of manufacture of you browning sweet-sixteen.
This was made in 1958.
Your serial number indicates that your sweet sixteen model Browning shotgun was made in the year 1954.
Your browning sweet sixteen was made by FN of belguim for browning in 1924.
This gun was made in 1952.
Your browning sweet sixteen was made by FN for browning in 1951.
The serial number does not match Brownings pattern. Go to http://www.browning.com/customerservice/dategun/detail.asp?id=13 and you'll see what I mean.
The 0s prefix to your serial number sets the date of manufacture of your Browning sweet sixteen shotgun to the year 1960.
1964