Original Rare U.S. WWI Navy M1917 Cutlass with Original Brown Leather Scabbard by Milsco 20th Century It can still be unscrewed

It can still be unscrewed from the body to inspect the internal cavity

This tan field cap features fold down side panels are held together over the crown of the cap by two corresponding hidden snaps

The pommel is Waffenamt marked and the blade ricasso is also marked by maker J

although clearly rifled

The North Sea naval region was the first to be established and was originally known as Der Kommandierende Admiral der Marinestation der Nordsee

Original Rare U.S. WWI Navy M1917 Cutlass with Original Brown Leather Scabbard by Milsco 20th Century It can still be unscrewedOriginal 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