Original Rare U.S. WWI Navy M1917 Cutlass with Cracked Guard & Rack Number French Antique Guns The creme colored polished liner

The creme colored polished liner and similar color leather sweatband are still attached

At the bombardment of Bardia on 21

which was aimed at destroying Japanese forces in

however it was definitely repainted during the WWII period

the Model 1861 was modified to a breach loading action and a new metallic cartridge

Original Rare U.S. WWI Navy M1917 Cutlass with Cracked Guard & Rack Number French Antique Guns The creme colored polished linerOriginal Item: Only One Available. Towards the end of the 19th Century and the beginning of the 20th Century, the US Navy was about to retire its 50 year old mainstay naval cutlass, the M1860, first developed and used for the Civil War. Just as it did for all of its naval cutlasses, the US Navy went out to seek the best current design of cutlass the world had to offer at that time and chose to pattern its new model M1917 after the Dutch Netherlands