Go to the Browning website to date it - http://www.browning.com/customerservice/dategun/ Check the auction sites for value. Your description is vague at best.
1932. $500-$1500.
Yes. Briley or some other company will have to do the modification.
The Browning Arms Company was founded in 1927 by John Browning. Charles Guevremont is the CEO of the Browning Arms Company as of September 14, 2014.
Browning Arms Company was created in 1927.
The Belgian company ABBI (Agency in Belgium for Burners Import) is operative in the sector heating, manufacturing & sale. The company is located in Brussels.
That is not the complete serial number. Value is going to depend on condition, and without further information is impossible to guess.
This is the Belgian firearms company Fabrique Nationale
This is the Belgian firearms company Fabrique Nationale
Depending on when it was made, there may not be one. Browning Hi-power was patented at one time by a Belgian company (FN), and has been around since the 1920's, before Federal Law dictated that all firearms manufactured or imported in(to) this country bear serial numbers.
In 2005, the National Belgian Railway Company decided to split the Belgian Railway company into three parts. These three parts are the Infrabel, the B-cargo operator of passenger and freight management, and the Belgian Railway Holding to oversee the entirety of the divisions. This was an economic move to reduce the stress of different Belgian regulations.
Browning lists authorized repair centers on their web site
Browning company
The Anglo-Belgian India Rubber Company (ABIR) was a company organized in Belgium in 1892 with a concession from Leopold II to exploit all forest properties within their allotted territory for 30 years