American naval cutlass
9000,-CZK Lenght 85 cm, , PoB: 14 cm, weight: 1.23 kg
Pattern Nathan Starr Cutlass
In 1808 as hostilities with England escalated, the US Navy increased its gunboat production. The new vessels needed new armaments .Nathan Starr of Middletown, Connecticut to produce the cutlasses and the pikes.Pattern based on the British 1804 naval cutlass with figure eight guard and cylindrical iron grip. Nathan Starr will always be remembered as the man who made “the cutlass that fought the War of 1812.”
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