Revolutionary War to Federalist period cutlass

[M ELEY]

Yeah. Wayne, you don't recognize that classic 'sailor's cutlass'? I think they used them in 'Water World'


Jim's point was (dismissing the titles from that page) that the clipped point was certainly fashionable in Europe and Asia long before here in the colonies. Naval weapons did have a history of following fashion also, with many of the naval dirks and swords of the Quasi-War period and Napoleonic period taking on Arabic/Egyptian forms after Bonaparte's Egyptian Campaign . Likewise, the early U.S. Marine swords took on the shamshir pattern after the Barbary Wars. I'm happy to have a clipped point in the collection now!

[kronckew]

Originally Posted by M ELEY

Yeah. Wayne, you don't recognize that classic 'sailor's cutlass'? I think they used them in 'Water World'
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mY Favourite 'cutlass' is the Dutch klewang, used originally to arm native police in Dutch East Indies for jungle use where European swords/sabres were too long.


It was used extensively in WW2 as a 'Naval Cutlass' by the Germans, and the Americans, copied directly and exactly from the original Dutch Hembrug made ones. Mine has a Solingen blade and was supposedly liberated from a German S-Boot by a Brit in an E-Boat. They have clip point too!



Even the Japanese used captured ones, guards cut down and blades shortened, known now as Hei-ho.


The last recorded use of the US Naval boarding cutlass was during the Altmark Incident on February 16, 1940

[M ELEY]

Yes! There's the clip point so popular on these cutlass types. Indeed, the Dutch klewang, modeled after it's Indonesian namesake, is a perfect example of how both Eastern and Asian patterns had an effect on European/American edged weapons. Nice sword, my friend!