Original U.S. WWI US Navy Rare & Unissued M1917 Cutlass With Original Scabbard Crimean War Almost two Years before the

Almost two Years before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor the US Marines were experimenting with take-apart bikes and used a Westfield made Compax in Marine Paratrooper trials

a company that may have had the original sole patent for making such headgear

- WWII German and Italian African Campaign Medal and Ribbon (2) Items

The belt tab was moved back about 3 inches at some point

There were a few variations but this multiple nut example is the most rare of them all with only a handful of known to exist

Original U.S. WWI US Navy Rare & Unissued M1917 Cutlass With Original Scabbard Crimean War Almost two Years before theOriginal 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