Original U.S. WWII US Navy Unissued Unmarked Milsco M-1941 Klewang Boarding Cutlass With Scabbard German Mauser 98k K98 This later SA Dagger has

This later SA Dagger has not been cleaned in a long while and it appears to not have been taken apart in modern times

M9" for the "60 m/m mortar M-2"

as opposed to hand written

After recruit training

Midway up the bottom of the stock there are some worn fingernail grooves around the bayonet channel

Original U.S. WWII US Navy Unissued Unmarked Milsco M-1941 Klewang Boarding Cutlass With Scabbard German Mauser 98k K98 This later SA Dagger hasOriginal 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