Original Sudanese Mahdi Dervish Arm Dagger with Skull Crusher Pommel and Tooled Leather Scabbard - c.1880 U.S. Flags Excellent eye catching item for

Excellent eye catching item for any WW2 Italian collection

2nd edition 1943

The cup and water bottle are held together by a khaki web belt harness

Newly Printed Item: By Dave C George

There is some wear through the plating around the edges

Original Sudanese Mahdi Dervish Arm Dagger with Skull Crusher Pommel and Tooled Leather Scabbard - c.1880 U.S. Flags Excellent eye catching item forOriginal item. Only One 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 Sudan