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Browning High Power Value????

ap3572001ap3572001 Member Posts: 441 ✭✭
edited December 2007 in Ask the Experts
Just saw a Parkerized High Power . Fixed sights, outside extractor. Serial Number L 059XX. Any idea on the value and age?
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  • dcs shootersdcs shooters Member Posts: 10,870 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Are you sure it is a Browning? I've owned many High Powers and have never seen one parkerized. It must have been refinished. And the serial number does not seem right.When they were first sold in the US the serial number started about 70,000.
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  • smyrnasmyrna Member Posts: 70 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    I have a "made in Belgium", "Assembled in Portugal" Browning HP in what is called a matte blue finish, that essentially looks parkerized.
    Mine looks like this one...
    http://gunbroker.com/Auction/ViewItem.asp?Item=86136626

    The early HPs hand the internal extractor "a la" the 1911. All recent models (forget the exact date) have the external extractor.
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  • XracerXracer Member Posts: 1,990 ✭
    edited November -1
    "I've owned many High Powers and have never seen one parkerized...."

    The Canadian John Inglis & Co. made HP's were parkerized. Approximately 160,000 were made between 1943-45.
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  • ap3572001ap3572001 Member Posts: 441 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    My pistol has "Fabrique National Herstal Belgue" on the slide and " Browning Patent Pending" below it.
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  • dcs shootersdcs shooters Member Posts: 10,870 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I know the Inglis's are, but this is a later one with external extractor. Can you post any pictures?
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  • dogtown tomdogtown tom Member Posts: 170 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    FN/Browning made plenty of parkerized Hi Powers for both military and commercial sales. The MKII Hi Power that came out in the '80's was notable for the "rib" that ran the length of the slide and the "drain hole" at the muzzle end of the slide.

    The MKII Hi Power is seen in black, dark gray and even a green park. Most of these MKII's appear to be finished quite a bit rougher than any other Hi Power (except the Inglis wartime version).

    Understand that FN would produce HP's with any range of serial numbers that the buyer wanted. If Bopuwanistan wanted 5,000 Hi Powers they could have them serial numbered any way they wanted.

    Outside extractor did not appear until 1962.

    Are you sure it says "Browning Patent PENDING" or just "Brownings Patent" ?
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  • p0838p0838 Member Posts: 248 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Here's a FN High Power from 1952

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  • jwb267jwb267 Member Posts: 19,664 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    where did you get my gun?[:o)] very nice piece. i love mine
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  • ap3572001ap3572001 Member Posts: 441 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    OK/ Here is what I have. A parkerized, military looking high power. Ser# L 059XX. On the slide it says: Fabrique National Herstal Belgique. and below Browning Patent Depose. The hammer is round, grips are wood and red inside, Extractor is modern. Condition is very good AT LEAST. I have no clue what I have.
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