The vast majority of these pistols would have been made during the 1840s and 1850s, as the advent of the revolver during the Civil War essentially made them obsolete; this could also conceivably be a modern reproduction with the proper markings removed, but that would take a partial disassembly and closer examination of things like screws and springs.
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