I'm not a collector. I buy items from estate sales and sell them on eBay for a living.
I recently bought a M-1905 bayonet. It is dated 1906, Springfield armory with the flaming bomb ordnance mark. Serial number is 77277. The scabbard is covered in rawhide. I've never seen a rawhide scabbard before. Are they common to this period?
I've listed it on ebay under my wife's user name "ravenlady". There are 12 photos there.