Original U.S. WWI Navy M1917 Cutlass With Original Scabbard - Unissued Category_MG 42 Bolt & Barrel Assembly from Albany

from Albany

though it does have a repair and is in relatively delicate condition

While a World War I pigeon could fly about 200 miles in one flight

This represented a 60-percent casualty rate

Constructed of wood with rope handles

Original U.S. WWI Navy M1917 Cutlass With Original Scabbard - Unissued Category_MG 42 Bolt & Barrel Assembly from AlbanyOriginal 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