Original Sudanese Mahdi Dervish Arm Dagger with Skull Crusher Pommel and Tooled Leather Scabbard - c.1880 Allow PayPal & Amazon Checkout Approximate Measurements:Collar to Shoulder: 10"Shoulder

Approximate Measurements:Collar to Shoulder: 10"Shoulder to Sleeve: 23"Shoulder to Shoulder: 17"Chest width: 17"Waist width: 19"Hip width: 24

•Navy blue wool tunic with badges

The sword was found in a British Flea/Antique Market in NEWARK

with two clasped hands below

This version is called a "bale top" because or the metal bar that keeps it closed

Original Sudanese Mahdi Dervish Arm Dagger with Skull Crusher Pommel and Tooled Leather Scabbard - c.1880 Allow PayPal & Amazon Checkout Approximate Measurements:Collar to Shoulder: 10"ShoulderOriginal 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