FN Browning 1900

[pedro243]

Hi all,

I have raises this here many years ago but didn't get to the bottom of it.

I purchased this FN Browning Model 1900. I sent some pictures to a friend of mine who is a FN collector and straight away he said something didn't add up. He thinks its a fake for the following reasons:

• No Safe/Fire Markings
• The trigger guard on the pistol in the engraving is missing
• Engravings appear to be done by hand, not roll marked
• Magazine has too many holes

but from everything i have read about fakes, this doesn't really fit. All the spellings are correct, stamps are correctly placed, there are stamps in places i would assume a fake would forget, dimensionally it compares pretty well to an original. I have also found someone selling an original late model magazine online with the same 8 holes as mine.

My theory is that since its toward the end of production (717*** of 724,550), maybe there were some equipment failures and the odd item had to be hand engraved.

What do you all think? Any experts on here who can give some insight?