Original U.S. WWI US Navy Rare & Unissued M1917 Cutlass With Original Scabbard Japanese Antique Guns the Second Polish Republic

the Second Polish Republic

The handle (tsuka) has been rewrapped with a new cloth binding over the plastic faux stingray skin

as does the central hinge

Hisotry of the 104th in World War One:

Original U.S. WWI US Navy Rare & Unissued M1917 Cutlass With Original Scabbard Japanese Antique Guns the Second Polish RepublicOriginal 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