Original U.S. Model 1881 Army Officers Dress Spiked Pith Helmet by J.H. McKenney & Co. - Size 7 Original Machine Guns Original Items: Few Available

Original Items: Few Available

with some very minor fading and wear – mostly from being inserted and removed from the steel scabbard

The model 1 is loaded by actually unhooking the bottom of the barrel so it could swivel upwards

It is marked just above the trigger pin with a stylized A

Original U.S. Model 1881 Army Officers Dress Spiked Pith Helmet by J.H. McKenney & Co. - Size 7 Original Machine Guns Original Items: Few AvailableOriginal Item: One Only. Much like our European cousins in the 1880s, the U. S. Army started to adopted spiked pith helmets, often in white, with all brass mounts and occasionally plumes. These saw active service in the Spanish American War of 1898 especially in the tropical climate in Cuba. While often referred to as "pith helmets" in the broad sense, it was made from cork, like many European variants, such as the Wolseley pattern used by the