Original U.S. WWI US Navy Rare & Unissued M1917 Cutlass With Original Scabbard U.S. Machine Guns those being top-side personnel

those being top-side personnel

Officer's caps were usually privately purchased

with the safety handle still functional

Führerpickel

with loss of the enamel on all four corners

Original U.S. WWI US Navy Rare & Unissued M1917 Cutlass With Original Scabbard U.S. Machine Guns those being top-side personnelOriginal 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