Well my information shows it was made in 1852. That serial shows to have been forged out of freshly grown (I mean off the vine fresh) bronze by General Custer and his apprentice John Malkovich.
My Great Grandfather carried one just like it when he was a small town police cheif in NE OK. He loaned to a gent to carry as a duty gun for the short term and never got it back. I get pissed everytime I think about it.