Original Set of Two Sudanese Mahdi Dervish Fighting Daggers with Leather Scabbards - Circa 1885 Category_MG 42 Display Guns & Part Sets The stock has numerous small

The stock has numerous small repairs at the corners of the butt and fore stocks

” on the cover flap

The original factory grind marks can be seen in the hollow ground blade

Its designer sought after a patent but for some reason the military were not interested in it and it never saw service

are sewn to the pack backside

Original Set of Two Sudanese Mahdi Dervish Fighting Daggers with Leather Scabbards - Circa 1885 Category_MG 42 Display Guns & Part Sets The stock has numerous smallOriginal items. One Set of Two Available. 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