Replica Pirate Cutlas Sword. The cutlass is best known as the sailor’s weapon of choice. A naval side-arm, its popularity was likely because it was not only robust enough to hack through heavy ropes, canvas, and wood, but short enough to use in relatively close quarters, such as during boarding actions, in the rigging, or below decks. Another advantage to the cutlass was its simplicity of use. Cutlasses are famous for being used by pirates, although there is no reason to believe that Caribbean buccaneers invented them, as has sometimes been claimed. However, the subsequent use of cutlasses by pirates is well documented in contemporary sources, notably by the pirate crews of William Fly, William Kidd, and Stede Bonnet. French historian Alexandre Exquemelin reports the buccaneer Francois l’Ollonais using a cutlass as early as 1667. Pirates used these weapons for intimidation as much as for combat, often needing no more than to grip their hilts to induce a crew to surrender, or beating captives with the flat of the blade to force their compliance or responsiveness to interrogation. Owing to its versatility, the cutlass was as often an agricultural implement and tool as it was as a weapon, being used commonly in rain forest and sugarcane areas, such as the Caribbean and Central America. In their most simplified form they are held to have become the machete of the Caribbean. I do except best offers within reason. Please contact me before returning an item. The item “JACK SPARROW SWORD PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN CUTLASS SABER PROP REPLICA 38 NEW” is in sale since Friday, October 20, 2017. This item is in the category “Entertainment Memorabilia\Movie Memorabilia\Props\Reproductions”. The seller is “albertsstore1″ and is located in Auburn, California. This item can be shipped to United States, Canada, Australia, Japan, China, Hong Kong, Israel, Mexico, Singapore, Norway, Saudi arabia, Ukraine, Malaysia, Brazil, Dominican republic.

• Memorabilia Type: Prop
• ASIN:: B00UFWHGY6