Thanks for the confirmation. When I bought the gun, I did some non-expert research on my own, and came up with the date of around 1903. I don't remember how I came up with that number, but I'm now putting together a list of my guns, with information on each, and wanted a better opinion than mine. Yes, the bluing is gone, but I didn't buy it for any monetary value. To me, it was a piece of history, and fit into my family tree of Smith revolvers.