Take it to your local well qualified gunsmith and have them give it a serious once over before attempting to put any ammo down the barrel.
You need to always remember that the older firearms were designed around the old style powders and todays powders burn faster and are more efficient in their combustion. If you are not very careful you could possibly get seriously injured by firing hot loads thru it by accident.
It is a beautiful looking gun.
If your smith says it's safe to shoot, get some ammo and have a few cylinders of fun with it and then put it away for the future generations. It will certainly be a very nice conversation piece.
If I owned it, I would have it professionally cleaned and lubricated and make a safe queen out of it.
It's probably worth little more than $150 or so, as a guess.
But I may be very wrong too.
Most of the really old european handguns lacked the refinement of the american revolvers of the same eras.
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