Browning Superposed - Belgium Re-worked
Hello,
My father passed this spring and I have his 12 ga. 1935 Browning Superposed - Pigeon Grade over-under. I remember him bringing it home as a kid. He bought it from a customer for $300.00 in the mid-1960's. He hunted many years with this shotgun. I can still smell the gunpowder when he cracked it open after dropping a rooster!
Several years ago...(10-15 years ago perhaps) he sent the gun back to Belgium to be totally re-worked. He told me his dealer sent it to a group made up of family members / descendants of the original craftsmen who worked for FN or as a subcontractor to FN when the shotguns were originally produced and engraved.
Well, after going through boxes of papers I have yet to find any paperwork showing this was done or what exactly he asked them to do to his shotgun...but I will say the gun is like new now with every engraving re-done and the wood re-cut...it's like a new gun now.
My question. Would anyone know who in Belgium does this work (name of a company) and how to contact them. I would dearly love to get a letter from this company (if still in existence) listing the work that was done and when it was done.
A long shot I know. I have been in contact with Browning's historian and have a "letter" en-route but he was not able to help me regarding the contacting the company who did this magnificent re-work.
Thanks in advance
bob
My father passed this spring and I have his 12 ga. 1935 Browning Superposed - Pigeon Grade over-under. I remember him bringing it home as a kid. He bought it from a customer for $300.00 in the mid-1960's. He hunted many years with this shotgun. I can still smell the gunpowder when he cracked it open after dropping a rooster!
Several years ago...(10-15 years ago perhaps) he sent the gun back to Belgium to be totally re-worked. He told me his dealer sent it to a group made up of family members / descendants of the original craftsmen who worked for FN or as a subcontractor to FN when the shotguns were originally produced and engraved.
Well, after going through boxes of papers I have yet to find any paperwork showing this was done or what exactly he asked them to do to his shotgun...but I will say the gun is like new now with every engraving re-done and the wood re-cut...it's like a new gun now.
My question. Would anyone know who in Belgium does this work (name of a company) and how to contact them. I would dearly love to get a letter from this company (if still in existence) listing the work that was done and when it was done.
A long shot I know. I have been in contact with Browning's historian and have a "letter" en-route but he was not able to help me regarding the contacting the company who did this magnificent re-work.
Thanks in advance
bob
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There is a Browning collectors forum on the net. ( Do a GOOGLE search, for Browning collectors etc.) Lot of them are big buck types, who specialize in very rare collectible Brownings. Like your dads engraved pigeon grade.
If any body would know, who in Belgium. Restored you shotgun, it would be one of them.0 -
thanks
i will try that
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thank you mr. fm! 0
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