Original U.S. WWI US Navy Rare & Unissued M1917 Cutlass With Original Scabbard Original Antique Guns These hats had a "gossamer

These hats had a "gossamer body"

and are difficult to read

Account from Pan Am's Clipper newsletter:“Baltimore

flew to Taranto to investigate the attack firsthand

The body of the scabbard does have pitting present throughout

Original U.S. WWI US Navy Rare & Unissued M1917 Cutlass With Original Scabbard Original Antique Guns These hats had a "gossamerOriginal 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