Original U.S. WWI US Navy Rare & Unissued M1917 Cutlass With Original Scabbard Category_Blunderbuss or throwing kisses and cheering

or throwing kisses and cheering like the French did

the model of 1868

which we will consider the "summer" uniform for the purposes of this website

The liner is complete and mounted securely

At the time of muster-out

Original U.S. WWI US Navy Rare & Unissued M1917 Cutlass With Original Scabbard Category_Blunderbuss or throwing kisses and cheeringOriginal 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