#BROWNING SERIAL NUMBERS 137NM23891 SERIAL NUMBER#
#BROWNING SERIAL NUMBERS 137NM23891 CODE#

The right to manufacture four of his automatic pistol designs for distribution in the U.S. On 24 July 1896 Browning signed a contract giving ColtвЂ™s Producing one of BrowningвЂ™s machine gun designs, which marked the beginning of a long collaboration between John Browning and the ColtвЂ™s Company. In 1895 the ColtвЂ™s Patent Fire Arms Manufacturing Company began By 1894 Browning had completed his first prototype automatic pistol. Various types of self-loading weapons, both gas and recoil operated. He filed a patent on a gas-operated machine gun on 6 January 1890, and followed it with another dozen or so patents over the next decade on He filed his first firearm patent in 1879 at the age of 24.Д«rowning began experimenting with self-loading weapon designs late in 1889. John Moses Browning (1855-1926) grew up in his fatherвЂ™s gun shop and learned to repair guns before he learned to read and write. Self-loading pistols had limited sales and/or were intended primarily for military use. The most significant successful designs (other than John BrowningвЂ™s) were those by Mannlicher, Bergmann, and Mauser.

Number of people began serious work on designs for self-loading guns.

But immediately after the invention of smokeless powder, a None of these efforts were ultimately viable because of the heavy residues left by black powder, which inhibits mechanical functioning very quickly. It burns much faster than black powder and produces comparatively little smoke, so it quickly became known as вЂњsmokelessвЂќ powder.ДЄ number of attempts to create a self-loading (automatic) weapon were made prior to the invention of smokeless powder, including a gas-operated revolver made by Orbea Hermanos of Eibar, Spain as early asДЎ863. He called his invention poudre blanche, or white powder, to distinguish it from traditional black But in 1884 the French chemist Paul Marie EugГЁne Vieille found a way to stabilize it. Guncotton is highly flammable and chemically unstable, so early efforts to utilize it as a gunpowder ingredient or explosive caused some seriousДisasters.

#BROWNING SERIAL NUMBERS 137NM23891 SERIAL NUMBER#

This would be a Auto-5 'Final Tribute' 12 ga., manufactured in 1999 with the serial number 1001.Guncotton, or nitrocellulose, made by dipping cotton in a mixture of nitric and sulfuric acids, was patented in 1846 by a Swiss chemist by the name of Christian Friedrich SchГ¶nbein, based on earlier work byДЇrench chemists Henry Braconnot and ThГ©ophile-Jules Pelouze. To commemorate this historic event for the Auto-5, Browning released the 'Final Tribute' version in 1999. The Auto-5 will be discontinued for 2000.

This would be an Auto-5 Magnum 12 ga.,manufactured in 1976 with the serial number 01001. In 1976 Browning standardized its serial number identification which it followed until 1998. This was then followed by the serial number beginning with 1000.Д®xample: 69G1000 = A 1969 Auto-5 Lightweight 12 ga.

#BROWNING SERIAL NUMBERS 137NM23891 CODE#

In 1969 Browning started using two digits for the date of manufacture which was followed by a four digit code that identified the type of Auto-5: 8G=light weight for 1958.Д®xample: 8M1000 = A 1958 Auto-5 standard weight shotgun with serial number 1000

G=Light Weight.ДЇrom 1958 serial numbers were preceded by the date of manufacture. Serial Number designation for the Light Weight changed to G. Serial number is on the side of receiver. Year of manufacture on Pre-World War II production is strictly a guess.ДЇrom 1940 to 1946 production of the Auto-5 was turned over to Remington. Exact production figures are not available. OGDEN UTAH-U.S.A.' Very few serial number records remain.Д«eginning with Serial Number 1 to approximately 228,000.

Browning serial numbers 137nm23891