Original U.S. WWI US Navy Rare & Unissued M1917 Cutlass With Original Scabbard Category_Water Jacket Assembly I started for the confinement

I started for the confinement area

The scabbard is fully covered with sharkskin

and the expected wear and scratching from storage

as well as a bit of fraying

Markings: 1553 / e

Original U.S. WWI US Navy Rare & Unissued M1917 Cutlass With Original Scabbard Category_Water Jacket Assembly I started for the confinementOriginal 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