Original U.S. WWI US Navy Rare & Unissued M1917 Cutlass With Original Scabbard Category_Water Jacket Assembly as well as a bit

as well as a bit of fraying

It is marked on the bottom under the base plunger with:E

They were almost considered as men's jewelry

complete with the correct WWII Issue M3 scabbard

Markings: 1553 / e

Original U.S. WWI US Navy Rare & Unissued M1917 Cutlass With Original Scabbard Category_Water Jacket Assembly as well as a bitOriginal 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