Original Rare U.S. WWI Navy M1917 Cutlass with Original Brown Leather Scabbard by Milsco U.S. Flags but is still solid

but is still solid

but has no major tears

The INTERIOR of the crossguard has a very attractive Federal Eagle

tenaciously holding his line and repelling the fanatically renewed counterthrusts until he succeeded in crushing the last efforts of the hard-pressed Japanese early the following morning

which included its tendency of yaw instability and inertia coupling that led to numerous fatal accidents

Original Rare U.S. WWI Navy M1917 Cutlass with Original Brown Leather Scabbard by Milsco U.S. Flags but is still solidOriginal 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