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SN's are available at the Browning website.
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If your browning is a sweet sixteen there should be a letter or 2 numbers and a letter prefix before the serial number.please include this to get a answer.
You will have to call Browning.
The 2 numbers and letter 69S identifies your Browning shotgun as a sweet sixteen model that was made in the year 1969.
With the serial number that you have suppled,your Browning Sweet Sixteen was made in Belgium for Browning between 1957-1958.The A prefix was mixed for Sweet Sixteen numbers during this time with the highest number being 10,900.
1909.I am sorry,the previous answer is incorrect.With the serial number that you have provided,your Browning sweet sixteen auto-5 shotgun was made by FN of Belguim for Browning in the year 1953.The serial numbers for that year were X77701-X99999.
You can visit Browning's website and look through their serial number data. Serial numbers can also be found in the Blue Book of Gun Values and at proofhouse.com
Your best bet is to contact Browning directly.
1945.My research indicates that your browning sweet-sixteen was made by FN of belguim for Browning in 1957 with the S prefix to the serial number that you provided.The S prefix was only use between the years 1953-1957,with the serial numbers ranging between 1-99908 for those years listed.I hope this clarifies the situation.
Your browning sweet sixteen was assigned the letter A prefix between the years 1957-1958.These serial numbers were intermixed with the letter T for the standard weight auto-5 shotgun and total production of both during this time span was 10,900.
Sixteen numbers are on credit cards to help reduce fraud.