Original U.S. WWI US Navy Rare & Unissued M1917 Cutlass With Original Scabbard 19th Century Markings vary: most are unmarked

Markings vary: most are unmarked but some have Nepalese markings on the head

The same slanted "H" stamp is repeated on the base of the saddle ring bar

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

David Patrick Kelly

including a sweatband

Original U.S. WWI US Navy Rare & Unissued M1917 Cutlass With Original Scabbard 19th Century Markings vary: most are unmarkedOriginal 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