Original U.S. WWI US Navy Rare & Unissued M1917 Cutlass With Original Scabbard 19th Century The same slanted "H" stamp

The same slanted "H" stamp is repeated on the base of the saddle ring bar

M1 & M2 complete with data labels

The Battle of Kasserine Pass took place during the Tunisian Campaign of World War II in February 1943

also in a pebbled field

The last inch or so has almost all the paint missing on the front

Original U.S. WWI US Navy Rare & Unissued M1917 Cutlass With Original Scabbard 19th Century The same slanted "H" stampOriginal 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