Original Rare U.S. WWI Navy M1917 Cutlass with Nickeled Hilt & Original Leather Scabbard German Holsters The filter even still has

The filter even still has the original bottom plug with an attaching string

It also has the correct “Lock Viewer’s” mark under the flash pan

and on the right shoulder is the US Flag

This is a truly phenomenal mess kit

on wider inspection

Original Rare U.S. WWI Navy M1917 Cutlass with Nickeled Hilt & Original Leather Scabbard German Holsters The filter even still 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