This serial number is too early a number to be a Browning Arms Co gun. FN in Belgium produced the A5 for other markets and this serial would have been one of those. It sounds like you have a gun that should have a letter above or preceding 20179. Please recheck and reask the question. Also state the guage.
Browning.com has a sn fucntion under customer service.
What model of browning shotgun are we talking about?I would need to know along with the serial number to date your shotguns year of manufacture.
Need serial # for build date & location, not model #.
go to Browning.com, select customer service, select date your firearm.
Need serial number to date most any firearm. Check Browning's website under customer service, then date your firearm. Value is determined by condition of firearm, and area of the sale.
Check link.
1980
That serial number falls into the range of numbers 1-72250 which I can say was assigned to the Browing Hi-power from 1945-1954,and the records were not kept as to the serial numbers per year of production.You may find a more accurate production year by going to the browning web-site under customer service and looking under date your Browning.
pistol made about 1918. value depends on overall condition................
There should be more numbers and or letters in the sn. If not, call Browning.
If you call S&W they will tell you when it left the factory. The actual build date could be anywhere from a few weeks to a year before.
You have not provided the entire sn. Call Browning for help