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This is a standard weight 16ga auto 5. It was made in 1962. The barrel should read: Browning Arms Company St. Louis Mo. & Montreal P.Q. If the barrel only reads St Louis and not Montreal, then the barrel is not original to the gun when it was sold.
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It is not certain which model you have. You can go to the link below to look your gun up in the Blue Book of Gun Values.
This gun was made in 1959 in Herstal Belgium. In 1959, Browning opened a service center in Canada and started engraving their barrels a St. Louis and Montreal. This Barrel marking remained from 1959 to 1969. Browning Shotguns were never made in Canada.
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.
Your serial number indicates that your Browning auto-5 sweet sixteen model shotgun was made in Belgium by FN for Browning in the year 1961.
Browning offers history letters.
Louis Browning goes by Lou.
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Your browning 16ga was produced by browning in belguim in 1949.
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