It was manufactured in 1805 while Lewis and Clark were enroute. It is serial number 1445. Manufactured 1799 to 1802. Total made 2,000. Made without sights.
Distinctive features are the all brass frame and lack of a forestock.
Trigger guard also brass. One-piece walnut handle with a steel backstrap extending from the frame to the brass butt cap. Metal parts finished bright. As the first official model of pistol adopted by the United States, the Model 1799 is recognized as one of the great prizes in the collecting of American firearms. Numerous spurious specimens of the Model 1799 have been made over the past half century.