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@thermionic where does that information come from? There is no bow in the neck, nor any bellying in the top -- it's just that the neck angle is wrong. The bridge looks original, or at least old, so it seems most likely to me that this was always intended to be steel strung. Of course it's quite possible that the date is wildly out, I have only the seller's word to go on there.
One of the links I found suggests that steel strings were around in the late 1800s but not common, and the guitars weren’t built for them : http://www.esomogyi.com/ssg1.html