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Browning Identification and Value

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My wife inherited her Grandfather's Browning 20 gauge. We are looking for more information on it. We have a few pictures for identification purposes. The top of the barrel says "Browning Arms Company St. Louis MO". On the side of the barrel it says * special steel -12 ga- shells 2 3/4. 0 kg 887 (squigle symbol), looks like a small a over a big B, looks like a lion over a PV, a circle with a crown on top and ELG and a star in the middle, and a circle with 12-70 in it. On the side of the chamber is another lion with a PV. The butt says Automatic Browning. All metal pieces except the barrel have engraving on them. The stock and grip a carved wood. The number on the bottom is 377316
 

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I take it you’re not too familiar with guns. ;)

I think you have a well used 12 Gauge (not 20 gauge) Belgian Browning A5. There are folks here that know better than I but from my experience, and this is if it all checks out ie no cracks in stock and mechanically sound it’s about a $300 gun. Let’s see what a few others have to say.
 
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like firpo posted you have a A-5 12 ga shotgun. They are really nice guns. have one myself in 16ga. It is a 5 shot semi auto. As far as the value Firpo quoted 300 is probably about right. They made quite a few of these so they are not rare, but they were really one the best shotguns ever built.
 
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