Original Set of Two Sudanese Mahdi Dervish Arm Daggers with Tooled Leather Scabbards - c. 1885 Century Barrel left facet is stamped

Barrel left facet is stamped 1824 (with a cancellation line through it from when it was later converted)

USN KA-BAR knives from 1942-1943 are exceptionally hard to find

For wartime recruits

Condition is quite good

3rd Platoon

Original Set of Two Sudanese Mahdi Dervish Arm Daggers with Tooled Leather Scabbards - c. 1885 Century Barrel left facet is stampedOriginal 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