Originally Posted by Bob Cash
Good morning Geoff. It's not my gun but a buddy's at the club. My understanding is this gun is European. It has issues but also potential.
Forend has a poorly repaired crack. It also needs a proper FN buttplate or recoil pad. LOP measures 14 1/4 from the front trigger to the end of the wood.
Two triggers, not twin trigger. Chokes */**
A well known dealer offered $1000 in its' current condition. I'm guessing $1500 to $2000 in its' present configuration to a collector whose boat is floated
by a historically significant low, low, low serial number and a willingness to put up with it or restore it.
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FWIW, the markings on the left side of the barrel are consistent with all Browning Superposed guns I've seen from that era - it was sold as a Browning, not a Fabrique Nationale gun - which typically helps value for most buyers here in the US, even though the guns are identical mechanically and functionally. They were all made in the same place, at the same time, by the same people.

The gun certainly has potential - get that crack fixed and get rid of that nightmare of a trap gun gizmo on the end of the stock and it'll look great. The good news is that Browning butt plates from that era are easy to find.

How did he test for the difference between Twin-Single Triggers and double triggers? The easy way is to drop in snap caps and pull either trigger twice - it it fires twice, it's Twin-Single...but I would not be surprised for a gun this low in serial numbers to have double triggers.

I feel like you're in the ballpark with your price estimate with the gun in its current condition, though a serial number that low might drive it up a bit for the right buyer.