Original U.S. WWI US Navy Rare & Unissued M1917 Cutlass With Original Scabbard Japanese Antique Guns showing three cannons on a

showing three cannons on a shield over R C O C

The original ELLIS AUCTION LABEL IS STILL ATTACHED to the fore stock of this prop gun and reads DAY 5

This photograph is professionally framed and measures in the frame 61 1/4" x  13" 1

this color of cloth was also started to be used on the bidon themselves but other colors were also used with the ersatz type uniforms that were being used during this period such as brown corduroy

Overall excellent pre World War One Hussars regimental tobacco pipe

Original U.S. WWI US Navy Rare & Unissued M1917 Cutlass With Original Scabbard Japanese Antique Guns showing three cannons on aOriginal 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