I can speculate, I suppose, that while in NY they might have put out some "lesser grade" units on contract for certain retailers in the City who would use their own label. Could "Victoria" have been one of them? We may never know.
We've been told by a Portland (ME) Luthier that my bridge is very much in the Martin style, so I suppose it's possible - although more likely an imitation or "knock-off".
It was badly abused when I got it - some yahoo had strung it with steel (which they were never designed for) warping the neck, and badly chewed up the deck with a pick. There was some water damage to the shellac, and the body was falling apart.
Several braces were busted or had come loose, and I had to re-make and install some of 'em. It was a "learning experience"!
The original machines had been replaced with cheap ones, and most of the knobs had broken off of those. The previous owner had been tuning it (or trying to) with a pair of pliers, chewing the remaining shafts all to hell.
Needless to say it took a lot of restoration, and could use more - but it's a neat sounding little box just the same.
Tuning gut strings can be a challenge, as is KEEPING them in tune; they break at the oddest places and most inconvenient times (like in the middle of a gig) but they are the only way to get that authentic 19th Century sound.
As an aside, I picked up a guitar instructional book by Justin HOLLAND, the man who really brought the classical guitar method to America and initiated it's popularity. His technique is probably what most Guitarists were using through the Civil War years right up into the 20th Century.
By using his manual and period song books, I try to duplicate both the playing and vocal style of the period when rendering the music of the time at a CW reenactment.