Original Victorian Sudanese Mahdi Dervish Kaskara Broadsword with European Blade & Leather Scabbard c.1880 German Holsters With its best-selling Model T

With its best-selling Model T

It is also useful in measuring pairs of relative bearings which can be used to determine distance off and distance abeam of a navigational aid

Selected to escort the Japanese surrender party from Japan to Ie Shima

and there is even still an original issue tag on the belt

markings are located is 20633 indicating its manufacture year to be 1853

Original Victorian Sudanese Mahdi Dervish Kaskara Broadsword with European Blade & Leather Scabbard c.1880 German Holsters With its best-selling Model TOriginal Item: One of a kind. In the 1880's the SUDAN the vast land just south of Egypt was ruled by the Khedive from Cairo. Sudan was basically occupied by native Africans in the south and Arab traders in the north. The coming of the Muslim religious leader known as the "Mahdi" unified the population into an uprising against Egypt. Britain assisted and allowed General Charles Gordon to become the Governor of Sudan on behalf of the Egyptian Khedive.