Original U.S. WWI US Navy Rare & Unissued M1917 Cutlass With Original Scabbard Category_Water Jacket Assembly I started for the confinement

I started for the confinement area

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

The scabbard is fully covered with sharkskin

Arguably the most modern rifle in the world until the introduction of the 8 mm smokeless powder using Lebel M1886 rifle

Markings: 1553 / e

Original U.S. WWI US Navy Rare & Unissued M1917 Cutlass With Original Scabbard Category_Water Jacket Assembly I started for the confinementOriginal 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