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Unknown Pistol, Please ID

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Dug up in a yard in Indiana.
Helping a friend to identify the model and make.
No surviving inscriptions where found.
Any help would be appriciated.
 
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Hello,
its a pinfire revolver, also called Lefaucheux after its French inventor. It was the first type that used self contained catridges. These cartridges had a little brass pin sticking out of the little holes you can see on the lower picture.
The drawback of that design was that a dropped gun could fire easily. This led to the cartridge design that is still used today.
These revolvers date to the 1860s to 1900s period.
Are you sure it was dug? Looks more like an attic find to me. I found a similar weapon in Germany. It was hidden by a farmer before US troops came to his village in May 1945.
Greetings from the old world,
Thorsten
 
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