No FN serial number data in the public domain.Ah but there is.With the serial number that you have provided,your Browning auto-5 shotgun was made by FN of Belguim for Browning in the year 1951. FN M1922 Yugoslavian serial number oddity If this is your first visit, be sure to check out the FAQ by clicking the link above. You may have to register before you can post: click the register link above to proceed. Archivesocial.
I just wanted to pass on an oddity. I recently was lucky to purchase a Yugoslavian Officer's FN M1922 gun that was already discussed in a prior thread. So there was no need to rehash that. However, upon inspection I noticed something strange.
It is highly regarded that the serial numbering on these guns is that the Yugoslavian Contract pistols are stamped with both a Contract Serial Number and a factory Production Serial Number. The Contract Number is outwardly visible on the frame, main slide, slide extension, magazine floor plate, and (in most cases) the barrel through the ejection port opening. The FN Production Number is found on the underside of the slide.
The FN Production Number is 200,300 greater than the Contract Number. However, on my example the 'contract' number does indeed match the FN production number. Has anyone else ever encountered this? Anthony.thanks for clarifying that. I guess I am still having trouble picking up the difference between the early contract and serial numbers and later contract and I totally missed that when discussing the serial numbers that section was only referring to the standard army and not both and thanks for clarification on the magazine. Bruno, I was also surprised.
I recalled reading your thread and you stated yours was a 7.65. I checked mine twice and even loaded a round and ejected it. It's definitely a 9mm. Again, no outward marking that I saw to indicate such or distinguish it from one like yours. With 7.65 and 9mm mags both fitting in guns, I can see this created some confusion and possibly why by the time the Germans took over we started seeing the different markings on the magazine sides to actually ID if it was a 9mm or 7.65 magazine.
Anthony.thanks for clarifying that. I guess I am still having trouble picking up the difference between the early contract and serial numbers and later contract and I totally missed that when discussing the serial numbers that section was only referring to the standard army and not both and thanks for clarification on the magazine. Bruno, I was also surprised. I recalled reading your thread and you stated yours was a 7.65.
I checked mine twice and even loaded a round and ejected it. It's definitely a 9mm.
Again, no outward marking that I saw to indicate such or distinguish it from one like yours. With 7.65 and 9mm mags both fitting in guns, I can see this created some confusion and possibly why by the time the Germans took over we started seeing the different markings on the magazine sides to actually ID if it was a 9mm or 7.65 magazine.Sam, I know a lot of people struggle with contract vs. Serial numbers. I need to expand that when we do a third edition.
This type of feedback helps me identify what needs expanding on. Thanks Anthony.
Anthony.I am glad you will expand that section to try and explain this contract verses serial number. By the way Bruno is speaking his is a first or early contract being supplied early 20's and his number is 5512. Mine being 611 being supplied after 1932.
I will be interested to hear more of your thoughts Anthony as I am guessing, your finding out that Brunos gun is a 7.65? I know I was when I read his original post but never questioned it.
I figured I must have missed reading where the contract supplied both in the officer model.
Browning Model 1922 Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruning hooks into spears; let the weak say, 'I am a warrior.' Joel 3:10 Browning Model 1922 Pistol By LTC Joel Johnston (Ret), US Army Ordnance Corps Browning 1922 Browning Model 1922 Circa 1923,1940, and1944 History: The Browning Model 1922 is an interesting pistol that is under appreciated in the United States.