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

it was retained

There is some wear through the plating around the edges

Stiff competition from other companies a well as the post-war glut of surplus arms led to little interest in the rifles at all

It seems to be fully functional

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