Original Sudanese Mahdi Wars Dervish Arm Dagger with Leather Scabbard circa 1880 Military Flare Guns Everyone who looks at this

Everyone who looks at this is awestruck

Introduced during WW 1 in 1918 for use with the Vickers and Lewis machine guns

(See Dolf Goldsmith

This is an exceedingly rare specialist British weapon used in the days of sail

Original Sudanese Mahdi Wars Dervish Arm Dagger with Leather Scabbard circa 1880 Military Flare Guns Everyone who looks at thisOriginal Item: One of a kind. In the 1880s 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.