Original Victorian Era Sudanese "Jarred" Long Throwing Dart Category_MG 34 Mounts John Hartwig

John Hartwig

Slovakia (south)

due to a blacksmith and blade making history going back well into the first millennium CE

all our other had wooden butts

for Vickers Sons & Maxim

Original Victorian Era Sudanese "Jarred" Long Throwing Dart Category_MG 34 Mounts John HartwigOriginal Item: One Only. Very seldom encountered, this is known as a "JARRED". or "JARID". It is an all steel throwing dart, a design that actually originates in what is today Turkey in the 17th Century or even before. From there it spread all over the Ottoman Empire and near East. These were last knowingly used by Dervish horseman when attacking British Infantry at the Battle of Omdurman in 1898. These were thrown, very accurately, from short range