Rare: US Navy Cutlass, Naval Cutlass M1917 (and M1941) Boarding Cutlass: Sword

Description

American US Navy Cutlass, Naval Cutlass M1917 (and M1941) Boarding Cutlass: The Model M1917 US Navy Cutlass was the Last Official Naval Cutlass Authorized For Use as a Personal Weapon and Inventoried Armament and the ONLY Cutlass Ever Actually Manufactured by the Government!
with
US NAVY SWORD BELT WITH STRAPS AND BUCKLE very clean
Towards that end of the 19th Century and the beginning of the 20th Century, and after having retooled it's entire fleet and sailed around the world in the first completely steam driven fleet 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 Klewang Cutlass model M1898-M1911.
This one may have been a presentation item, as it was not
sharpened
and very clean.  Back story is the the person who owned this sword  30 years in navy and was
presented
this sword at retirement.