Couple quick clarifications--the A5 serial number is typically found on the right side of the receiver, below the bolt release. This is indeed the number you're using, correct? Second, have you looked through the article I linked on Sweet 16 serial numbers. NOT the list on Browning's site? Specifically, there are several other clues there that might help with relative age, such as the country of origin, the address given, the type of trademark used, whether some parts (the trigger and/or safety, for instance) are gold-plated, whether "sweet sixteen" is written in script on the receiver, and several others. As Dodgeit mentioned, while all Sweet 16's are Auto-5's, not all Auto-5's are sweet 16's, though because of their collectibility there's plenty of people who, accidentally or otherwise, will tell you a gun is a Sweet 16 when it isn't. Read through the article and get back to us, but bear in mind this is a VERY jumbled area, where often not even the experts (and I'll freely admit to NOT being one--I know a bit and have some decent sources but there's just too much info out there for anyone to know it all) can always agree--for instance, the article notes that Browning's own long-time historian felt that some of the early guns were indeed "sweet 16's" based on Browning's use of the word in their marketing when the guns were not in fact marked as "sweet 16's", which is usually taken to be their defining characteristic. Also, any gun with a production run of nearly a century, made at several different manufacturing sites, through two world wars (especially important as Belgium was one of the manufacturing sites) and by several different companies, is bound to have differences and discrepancies in its numbering production documentation.
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