Help Identifing Browning A5 12 Gauge

[AZTURBOMINI]

Hey guys and thanks in advance for your help...I have been on the internet for 4 hours strait and cannot come up with a good answer on when and where my A5 was produced. I traded for the gun today and am familiar with the A5 as I used to have a Remington model 11. I will try and describe the markings as best I can...
Serial # B31113 with a + sign stamped in the trigger guard. Barrel has Browning Arms Company ST Louis MO, Special Steel-12 Gauge-Shells 23/4".

Behind the wording on the barrel next to the receiver there is a mark that looks like a Heart and BP in an oval circle.
In the same spot on the barrel but on the ejection side there is a mark that looks like an arrowhead then CTT.
Has flat end on the pistol grip (not round) and Browning only on the butt plate.
Also one weird thing this gun has that I have not found on any other A5's (Pictures) is... The top of the receiver looks to be bead blasted all along the round top part of the receiver whereas most all other A5's I have seen have some scroll work on them???

Thanks again,

JR

 

[rbernie]

http://www.browning.com/customerservice/dategun/detail.asp?id=13

The Browning chart says 1950.

 

[AZTURBOMINI]

Thanks for the quick reply "rbernie". I forgot to add what I had come up with... the letter "B" means 12 Gauge? and the serial # was 1950 but... where was it made?

 

[AZTURBOMINI]

Found it... 1946-1951 made by remington in the US.

 

[rbernie]

Yup.

FN's facilities weren't rebuilt and ready to make them again until '52. Production was moved during 1976 to Japan, where the remaining runs were manufactured until the gun was finally discontinued in 2000.