Original U.S. WWI US Navy Rare & Unissued M1917 Cutlass With Original Scabbard Crimean War sever electrical cables

sever electrical cables

The belt tab was moved back about 3 inches at some point

There were a few variations but this multiple nut example is the most rare of them all with only a handful of known to exist

though there is some variation in design due to manufacturing differences

rather rare musical instrument from WWI

Original U.S. WWI US Navy Rare & Unissued M1917 Cutlass With Original Scabbard Crimean War sever electrical cablesOriginal 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