Original U.S. WWI Navy M1917 Cutlass With Original Scabbard - Unissued MG 34 Display Guns & Part Sets The very elegant walnut wood

The very elegant walnut wood stock has some wonderful engravings

and while there is some of the original red enamel

A very interesting WWII Home Front item

Overall length of the sword is 35 inches

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Original U.S. WWI Navy M1917 Cutlass With Original Scabbard - Unissued MG 34 Display Guns & Part Sets The very elegant walnut woodOriginal 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