Browning.com has a sn fucntion under customer service.
there is a dedicated web site for browning auto 5 shotguns, google it.
The 2Z prefix to your shotguns serial number indicates that your Browning auto-5 was made by FN of Belguim for Browning in 1962.
At the Browning website. Also recently a book has been published on Browning firearms, I forgot the name bit you can probably find it thru Amazon.
What is year of manufacture of a Browning Shotgun A-5 with serial number 01553NP111?
In 1972 the browning auto-5 shotguns were still being produced in belguim.
FN is the abbreviation for Fabrique Nationale Arms Co. of Herstal, Belgium. They made most of the A-5 shotguns and Superposed shotguns for Browning USA.
Call Browning with the sn and they can tell you.
your browning auto-5 shotgun was made in 1926.
Yes.
Browning produced almost 3 million Auto-5s
1947
They started by this year.