Original Set of Two Sudanese Mahdi Dervish Daggers with Leather Scabbards - c. 1885 British Militaria and came in a few

and came in a few different configurations

suggesting it was put into service in the closing days of WWII

Browning arranged a test at the Springfield Armory in May 1917

An iconic movie image is a Stearman cropduster chasing Cary Grant across a field in North by Northwest (the airplane that chased Grant was actually a Naval Aircraft Factory N3N Canary

Original Set of Two Sudanese Mahdi Dervish Daggers with Leather Scabbards - c. 1885 British Militaria and came in a fewOriginal items: One Set of Two Only. 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