Hmmm...Well, Colin is right that the hilt is like a plug bayonet, but if it were a plug, why the shell guard? As a plug bayonet placed in the end of a musket, a guard seems redundant. Yet, the hilt does look original and not a composite. A multi-use weapon? Both a sword/dagger for close range fighting or as an accompaniment bayonet to the empty fowler?
