Original Set of Two Sudanese Mahdi Dervish Arm Daggers with Tooled Leather Scabbards - c. 1885 Category_Water Jacket Assembly The scabbard matches the hilt

The scabbard matches the hilt exactly

The trigger has a faceted facing edge

His small band labored for two whole years and like so many others came up "EMPTY"

A wonderful set of photo album and scrap book from a Marine that served in China from 1935-1940

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Original Set of Two Sudanese Mahdi Dervish Arm Daggers with Tooled Leather Scabbards - c. 1885 Category_Water Jacket Assembly The scabbard matches the hiltOriginal items: One Set of Two Only. The loss of General Gordon at Khartoum in 1885 was a great blow to British prestige and yet it took thirteen years for Great Britain to extract revenge at the Battle of Omdurman in 1898. The religious leader, the Mahdi, "the chosen or expected one" had died shortly after the Gordon episode and the Caliphate was now led by the infamous and exceptional brutal Khalifa, "the successor". These tribal natives of the