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10-02-2017, 05:15 PM
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Model 1910 Browning markings
I have just added a nice 1910 Browning to my gun collection. It has some none factory markings I hope you can help me with. On the left side of the slide is a bow & arrow in a circle the bow is pulled back ready to shoot next to that there is 27. Down on the frame right over the frigger is 427. Then on the right side of the frame over the trigger is Rol.R. Brno. Any help with theses marking will be grealty appreciated. Tanks papabyrd
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10-02-2017, 06:27 PM
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I'm pretty sure the "Bow and Arrow" is a Prague proof that was added to foreign made firearms that were imported into Czechoslovakia. The 27 beside it was most likely the year it was proofed. I can't help with the other markings, only to assume that the 427 is a I.D. number of some sort.
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10-02-2017, 07:16 PM
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Brno is a city in the Czech Republic.
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10-02-2017, 08:02 PM
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Are you sure the marking isn't Pol.R.Brno ? Sounds like a police marking.
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10-02-2017, 09:17 PM
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Thanks guys I can always count on the members of this forum to help me out . I looked at the Rolling again with a loop and it is a P it has a scratch between the p and O that looks like the leg of a R . So you were right . I figured it was a police gun just did not know from where . Thanks again guys your the best.
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10-02-2017, 09:48 PM
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824tsv is correct about the the bow & arrow in a circle stamp. A Prague Proof Hs marking of a foreign made firearm.
(Same symbol inside a non symetrical 6 sided box is the same from the Weipert (Vejprty) Proof Hs.
I agree the other marking looks like Pol.R.Brno,,and is probably a property marking from an agency (Police?) of the Czech City of Brno.
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10-03-2017, 06:21 AM
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Vanderlinden's "FN Browning Pistols" states that the Czech bow-and-arrow proof use dates from 1927, but gives no information of specific Czech contracts for the 1910. The lettering on the slide looks like that used between 1925-29 (in 1930, the lower-case "de" changed to upper-case "DE" in "de/DE Guerre". So, your pistol can be narrowed down to around 1927-29. All of this is from Vanderlinden's book, which I have really enjoyed.
Nice little piece of history!
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02-09-2019, 12:59 PM
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Papabyrd, I have the same Czech police markings on my FN 1910. My pistol serial number is only 100 from yours.
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