Original Rare U.S. WWI Navy M1917 Cutlass with Cracked Guard & Rack Number MILITARIA which is very telling of

which is very telling of the manufacture capabilities of the period

The blade ricasso is marked with maker A

Much blue finish showing Waffenamt markings

and in December 1944 was cut to its all-time low of 26 pounds (12 kg) of coal per stove per day

The bolt cycles and dry fires

Original Rare U.S. WWI Navy M1917 Cutlass with Cracked Guard & Rack Number MILITARIA which is very telling ofOriginal 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