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Blade looks like a 1917 cutlass or the Danish predecessor. Hilt is professionally done aluminum, riveted.
Is this one of the ones they converted to machetes for the Island Campaign in WWII?
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Blade looks like a 1917 cutlass or the Danish predecessor. Hilt is professionally done aluminum, riveted.
Is this one of the ones they converted to machetes for the Island Campaign in WWII?
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No markings at all. If there are any, they're under the hilt. They're grommet type rivets, petaled over on one side. I can get closeups.
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Dutch, not Danish, thanks.
I wonder if someone did a production run using surplus blades. It's a milled, well-fitted two-piece grip with sturdy rivets. It suggests someone did more than one of them, though obviously it was either local or emergency production, not arsenal.
I wonder if someone did a production run using surplus blades. It's a milled, well-fitted two-piece grip with sturdy rivets. It suggests someone did more than one of them, though obviously it was either local or emergency production, not arsenal.