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CTG is the secret code for "cartridge."
It is a .38 Hand Ejector Military & Police, 4th Change, made sometime between 1915 and 1942. Probably in the last half of that period because it lacks the 1901 patent date. Maybe somebody will come along with the year made.
If in good sound condition it will shoot standard velocity .38 Specials just fine. I would not pound an old gun with +P ammunition.
It has the old style hammer block which is not foolproof; S&W revised the design in 1945 when a sailor dropped one on a steel deck and it went off and shot him. Might be best to load with 5 and keep an empty chamber under the hammer, except maybe for range exercises when you are going to load and shoot immediately.
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