Original U.S. WWII Bring Back Philippine Moro Curved Blade Knife with Wooden Scabbard U.S. Badges it saw use well into

it saw use well into the 1990s

based on the Fordyce Beals' patent of September 14

and is marked on the blade ricasso with date 1917 over the W in a circle manufacturer's mark

During the final days of the units basic training

Original U.S. WWII Bring Back Philippine Moro Curved Blade Knife with Wooden Scabbard U.S. Badges it saw use well intoOriginal Item: One Only. This is a very nice curved short sword from the Philippines, as used by the Moro people. The collective term Moro people or Bangsamoro people refers to the 13 Islamized ethnolinguistic groups of Mindanao, Sulu, and Palawan. They had fought against the United States during the Philippine American War of 1899 1902, in which the Moro tribe rebelled against American rule. The insurrection had been going on since the early 1890s,