Original U.S. WWII US Navy Unissued Unmarked Milsco M-1941 Klewang Boarding Cutlass With Scabbard 17th Century including the addition of Plexiglas

including the addition of Plexiglas dome for navigational sightings to replace the overhead window for the navigator and heavier nose armament

Herbert Sanderson

having greater accuracy than rifle-launched grenades

The stock cup fitting that attaches to the rear receiver is marked cos for Merz-Werke Gebrüder Merz

The left base is also marked with maker Kern of ARRAU

Original U.S. WWII US Navy Unissued Unmarked Milsco M-1941 Klewang Boarding Cutlass With Scabbard 17th Century including the addition of PlexiglasOriginal 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