Original British WWI Royal Artillery Officer Visor Hat by Hawkes and Company French Field Equipment The crossguard is textbook style

The crossguard is textbook style Hörster

Buyers beware- There are some less expensive reproduction MG 34 slings on the market

so there was no shortage of volunteers

this is only the second such sword we've seen in more than 40 years collecting

we never had one of these before and saw this one at the Baltimore Gun Show in March 2014

Original British WWI Royal Artillery Officer Visor Hat by Hawkes and Company French Field Equipment The crossguard is textbook styleOriginal Item: Only One Available. Clearly a well to do sort of chap! Equipping himself with a private purchase, top of the line, officer's visor cap from one of London's most revered tailors HAWKES & CO., located at No. 1 Saville Row, also showing, in the interior two other branches at Camberley and Woolwich both adjacent to Officer's training centers. Offered in very nice original condition showing just a few moth nips and retaining it's shape and