Serial Number Example: 01001RT151. This would be an Auto-5 Magnum 12 ga.,manufactured in 1976 with the serial number 01001. 1999: The Auto-5 will be discontinued for 2000. To commemorate this historic event for the Auto-5, Browning released the 'Final Tribute' version in 1999.
There was a model 103-11 over/under sold by Sears. Sears used the Ranger trademark in addition to JC Higgins.
This model was made by Marlin and is essentially the same as a Marlin Model 90. Serial number information is not available to date this gun, as it is not known if the numbers ran consecutive ly with the Marlin marked models. Marlin manufactured this model from 1937 to 1958. The earlier guns had a separated space between the barrels; This version was made from 1937 to 1949.
Between 1949 and 1958 the barrels were solid together. Per Brophy Sears rangers were sold prior to WWII. They were marked JC Higgins after WWII. The Blue book of gun Values is wrong. Model 90's prior to 1949 were solid between the barrels and open between the barrels after 1949.
OK, let's properly identify this pistol. It is a CZ-27, made in Czechoslovakia under German occupation during World War II. The 'fnh' you undoubtedly are seeing on the slide is NOT 'Fabrique Nationale Herstal' but rather the German code for the Czech factory where that pistol was made. It is not a FN Model 1922, nor a Browning. NCondition is absolutely everything on these pistols, and any special unit markings or rare variations can double or even triple the value to a collector. Please provide more information, and digital pictures if possible, to sales@countrygunsmith.net and we will do our best to help you out with an appraisal or possibly even purchase the pistol. Nwww.countrygunsmith.net n. 
Now I know what happened to the AntiqueGuns.com crystal ball! How did you get from a Browning Model 22 to a CZ-27? The 'Pistole Modell 27 Kaliber 7.65' was obviously copied directly from the left side of the slide and is the correct marking for a CZ27. At some point someone has misidentified this pistol as a Model 1922 Browning, undoubtedly because of the 'fnh' markings that a wartime CZ27 would show. Neither the FN Model 1922 or the commercially marked Browning version have the markings 'Model 22' so that makes the correct identification easy.