Original U.S. WWII US Navy Unissued Unmarked Milsco M-1941 Klewang Boarding Cutlass With Scabbard Antique Shotguns HOFLIERFERANTEN" which indicates they were

HOFLIERFERANTEN" which indicates they were approved button makers to supply the Royal Family

These numbers have no practical meaning for collectors at this point

Year of Manufacture: circa 1860-70

HELMOND (HOLLAND) 100 x 170

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Original U.S. WWII US Navy Unissued Unmarked Milsco M-1941 Klewang Boarding Cutlass With Scabbard Antique Shotguns HOFLIERFERANTEN" which indicates they wereOriginal 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