Sorry, the Light Weight Twelve was not made until 1953, and the gun was never made in St. Louis. Post the serial number and we can tell you what you have.
50-500 usd
A letter from Browning will remove all doubt. Could be 57 or 67
That is not the complete serial number. Value is going to depend on condition, and without further information is impossible to guess.
What Springfield Company are you referring too? Browning didn't have a Company in Springfield, but they did have their operations in St Louis Missouri. The Headquarters for the Browning Companies was in Ogden for many years, known as Browning Bros. and also the JM & MS Browning Co. In 1927 they created the Browning Arms Company in the United States to sell under that name the gun imports from Belgium. In 1931 Browning moved their Sales and distribution operations from Ogden to St. Louis Missouri and it remained there until 1964 when they moved to Morgan Utah. Browning guns are all from the same Company that imported, made and sold guns known as Browning's. Most all the Browning guns were made in Belgium and Japan, however some people have had confusion over the guns made in the USA, St. Louis Mo. These guns are the auto-5's that Remington made for Browning during WWII. They were actually made in New York by Remington, not in St Louis.
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50-500 usd
Your browning 16ga was produced by browning in belguim in 1949.
0--500 USD depending on condition.
This is the answer........... http://www.browning.com/services/dategun/index.asp Y-THINK-Y This gun was received in the FN warehouse in the latter half in 1955 before being shipped to St. Louis auto5man
Your browning auto-5 standard 16gauge shotgun was made by FN of belguim for browning in 1953.
This gun was made in 1947