Original Rare U.S. WWI Navy M1917 Cutlass with Nickeled Hilt & Original Leather Scabbard German Holsters The trunk has a lock

The trunk has a lock system with a still-intact latch

and on the right shoulder is the US Flag

It also has the correct “Lock Viewer’s” mark under the flash pan

GASOLINE BURNER

The relatively short range of the American gun battery—together with the signature cloud of black smoke generated with each volley—forced gun crews to endure a fusillade of Mauser rifle fire from the Spanish defenders

Original Rare U.S. WWI Navy M1917 Cutlass with Nickeled Hilt & Original Leather Scabbard German Holsters The trunk has a lockOriginal 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