Original Sudanese Mahdi Dervish Arm Dagger with Skull Crusher Pommel and Tooled Leather Scabbard - c.1880 Brown Bess Musket Parts There is also an I

There is also an I G inspector's or maker mark

The butt swivel is the SMLE Mk I pattern

When it became clear that the port was under air attack from the Japanese fleet

however the sliding lens cover to the front lens is now absent

so we have not attempted any major cleaning or restoration

Original Sudanese Mahdi Dervish Arm Dagger with Skull Crusher Pommel and Tooled Leather Scabbard - c.1880 Brown Bess Musket Parts There is also an IOriginal 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