The Stevens Model 520 was built on a Browning patent and so marked. Stevens also built the gun for Sears before World War II under the 'Ranger' tradename, so if you have a slide-action shotgun marked 'Ranger' and 'Browning Patent' then that is what you have.
1972
A semi-automatic shotgun built on the A-5 pattern.
It means that your gun was built in 1997 in Japan.
Impossible to answer without a detailed description of all markings and features.
Have one that was made in 1943
The serial number L52789 indicates that you have a Browning light weight model,auto-5 shotgun which was made in the year 1955.
It was built in 1969 in Belgium. It should be a 12ga. Magnum.
Browning Double Auto or Twelvette. Double Atuo's built as skeet/trap specific guns. Twelvettes were first built as a light weight womens gun.
We cant find one for you here. Browning Arms Co never made a shotgun with damascus barrels as far as we know. Its possible that a gun was made with those barrels built on one of Brownings patents.
They were made in the 1930s and there is no serial list by year. These are NOT Brownings but were made for the SEARS store by various makers, but not the Browning Arms Co. It was built on Brownings patent and made by Stevens.
Springfield was a trade name used by Stevens/Savage c. 1920-1945. No relationship to the current Springfield Inc or the US Springfield Armory. What you have is a Savage Model 720 built under license from FN (Browning) They where also made by Remington with the Model 11 designation.