Original U.S. WWI US Navy Rare & Unissued M1917 Cutlass With Original Scabbard 19th Century with battalions from both Ohio

with battalions from both Ohio and Michigan

providing the required illumination over the target area

It has gilt bullion wire embroidered laurel leaf insignia with American eagle and WASH

M1 & M2 complete with data labels

The last inch or so has almost all the paint missing on the front

Original U.S. WWI US Navy Rare & Unissued M1917 Cutlass With Original Scabbard 19th Century with battalions from both OhioOriginal 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