Original Rare U.S. WWI Navy M1917 Cutlass with Original Brown Leather Scabbard by Milsco U.S. Flags Just a lovely patina

Just a lovely patina

tenaciously holding his line and repelling the fanatically renewed counterthrusts until he succeeded in crushing the last efforts of the hard-pressed Japanese early the following morning

The rifle has a clear issue date marking of T

Naval history

except in the center where polishing has brightened it up

Original Rare U.S. WWI Navy M1917 Cutlass with Original Brown Leather Scabbard by Milsco U.S. Flags Just a lovely patinaOriginal 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