
#Browning 1910 serial numbers serial numbers#
Trigger, During the time period your Hi Power was made, FN reused serial numbers over and over and over again. There is a connectivity error with Paypal and the site Thank you from the management. Attention if you have renewed your paid membership on the site but it has not taken effect within 24 hours please send the tech account a private message here to get your account corrected and for further instruction. All Hi Powers, except for most made under German control, had commercial markings even if they went to the military.Advertise Here. Pre war 40, range were slotted with a tangent sight.
#Browning 1910 serial numbers serial number#
Browning began importing them in at serial number 70, The quantity imported by Browning were just a small number of those being produced by FN. When Hi Powers came back to the commercial market is really not exactly known. The old management came back in and 'continued' production. FN produced Hi Powers during the war years. Trying to figure out if it's a ish era Hi-Power or a post war-pre Browning? I've read where FN resumed production in the late 's at serial number 1 and made around K a year.īrowning started importing them aroundso might this be a ish FN production that made it way over to the USA? FN made a lot more than k per year. The usual array of proof marks but nothing German military or any military for that matter. Thread: dating a FN Hi-Power, pre-war or post war? Local gunshop got in a very clean FN Hi-Power.įixed sights, no t-slot, and in the 40, serial number range. I've just been reminded of the '.Remember Me? What's New? Forum Gunboards. Any idea when the one above might have been built? Any other observations? I will probably have the winning bid on this one. Interesting that they reused serial numbers. Thanks for the information, I was waiting for you to chime in. Because of this policy, for example, a Hi Power with a 4 digit serial number could be much younger than a Hi Power with a 5 digit serial number.Īs for the Browning web site's date chart, it is a hot mess on so many levels that it could occupy a large thread all by itself. The result of this is that FN reused serial numbers multiple times. If a customer contracted for a large number of Hi Powers and specified that their pistols be numbered in a certain sequence, presumably, to match the customer's existing numbering system, then FN would gladly do so. FN serial numbers are different from Browning serial numbers in that FN would reuse serial numbers over and over. Prior to the sixties, serial numbers weren't required by the US. The problem is the earlier numbers aren't documented as well.

Browning 1910 serial numbersįN is Browning, and the serial numbers are essentially from FN. Thanks for the link but I am looking for FN serial numbers not Browning.
