I'm just curious as to the history of the thing.And am hoping someone on here knows a lot about them and can help me because there were many made and floating around Europe. Fn Browning Model 1922 Serial Numbers The FN M1922 pistol has been used by numerous countries including: Yugoslavia, Holland, Greece, Turkey, Romania, France, Denmark, Nazi Germany and later West Germany. I hear my Grandfather won it in a gambling bet from the guy who brought it back from WW2. It is an smoothly elegant and graceful pistol design that became immensely popular with both the military and the commercial markets. the book depicts several guns in same range as yours, for instance, 129912.

Fn browning model 1922 7.65mm/.32acp ww2 wwii description: 254) also states that no specific contract numbers were used for any of the german contracts, all pistols had standard postwar fn serial numbers. I'm pretty sure the gun was produced and delivered prior to the German takeover of the factory in 1940 or 41. Fn Browning M1922 Serial Numbers.The model 1905 is often referred to as the model 1906, generally in the u.s. Normally there is an FN inside an oval in this area but this gun has a crown over M and a crown over B (Belgium perhaps?).Īpparently the serial numbers for these guns can be quite confusing because of all the different contracts they were manufactured for.

What I'm confused about is the 2 proof marks on the trigger guard. There is no German markings on the gun that I can tell. It has the cyrillic writing on the side indicating 'Property of State' Serial number 69657. I'm about to get a pistol which as far as I can tell was made for the Yugoslavian Army. The serial numbers for these pistols started around the 67,000 to 68,000 range and proceeded to approximately serial number 155,000.

Fn browning m1922 serial numbers